Toby Tyler

and swore alternately, and the boy really surprised him by his way of selling goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made Toby believe that he was doing onl

spectator had left the tent the worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, and T

ard the place where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it was already being taken down, and he had

he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben was there, getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the cage had not been put up, and Toby ha

's wife gave me. I hain't got very much time to talk with you now; but the first chance I

andlike paws, and was tearing it to pieces

thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want any more, after we start, just put

s about to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides,

er instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, prec

under way and felt that he could indulge in a li

unt of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, "

asked Ben,

w here in the cart, you know

a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when he thought of the

as Stubbs?" asked Ben, after

only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that nam

for fear he might burst a blood vessel; and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder: "Well, you are the qu

ay anything right out to me, but he knows everything I

oked Toby full in the face, so as to give more emphasis to his words-"are

ile ago; but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living S

, "monkeys hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't kno

hear any of the

forty years, an' I never seen nothin' in a monkey mor

inced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs kn

n. "You can't show me one thing that a m

and, looking round, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through

eat, to tell me an' I would give it to him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it." An

k of Mr. Stubbs knowi

ld woman was. You see, Toby my boy, monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monk

t, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just at that moment, he had

more arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him

te amusement of his-and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increas

hing sound, was conscious of a feeling of being hurled from his seat by some great force, and then he lay senseless b

il, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses under perfect control and thus averting more trouble. It was the breaking of on

well known curiosity of its race, and began to examine the boy's person carefully, prying into pockets and trying to open the boy's half closed eyelids. Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud bank and was only stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises. The attention

of its face was as grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed sorrow at his fall, and he imagi

friend, as he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't ge

hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face expressed the liveliest ple

ing aid. As Toby saw them coming he also saw a number of small forms, looking something like diminutive men, hurrying past him, and for the first time he u

ed, pointing toward the fugitives; "they're al

e boy. He sprang to his feet, chattering in the most excited way, screamed two or th

elieving the old fellow had run away from him. "I