Mappo, the Merry Monkey / His Many Adventures

ellow, laughing and chattering in his own way, and playing tricks on his bro

e before this happened to me," thought Mappo, as he tried very hard to get loose from the net in

you. He had been caught by a native hunter, in a net made from

called natives-that is they had never lived in any cou

spears, and bows and arrows. They hunted wild animals-lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys. Some of the wild animals they used for f

se to the net, so it would fall down over them, when one end was pulled loose by a native (hidden behind a tree) bits of cocoanut were sprinkled about. Monkeys are very fond of cocoanut, and the nat

not. It was too strong. Tighter and tighter it was pulled about him, until h

ot have understood what they said, if you had heard them, any more than you can understand dog and cat talk, but Mappo

key!" exclaimed one tall, b

to the white men who will take him away in a ship. We will get many things for him, lots of beads to

wire, or gay-colored cloth, to make themselves look, as they thought, very fine. T

aken to a ship, it seems. I wonder what a ship is like. Well, as long as I am not to be hurt, perhaps it will be fun after a

ungle woods, wondering where Mappo himself was. If they had seen him in

ghtly about the little monke

e came up with a box made of tree branches nailed together. It was what is called a c

led one native to another, as th

him a chance!" the

e would be good, for his mamma had often told him that was the best way to get along in this world. "But I'm sure she never thought I would be c

s a monkey, and he could give some good h

was opened. Then part of the net was pulled to one side, and Mappo saw a hole where he th

ore cocoanut, unless my mamma or p

ad gone into it when the net was open opposite the door of the crate. In another second the door was shut

language, which was as much like monkey talk as anything else. "Now w

ppo, and I might tell you, in case you do

ut, in a second, found himself insi

ore. They cannot go on the land, or into the interior, where the wild animals live. So

ttle crate, inside of which he now found himself. "I haven't much r

ght in the net. But he was thirsty. However, he saw no water, and, though he chatter

e like himself. He peered through between the slats of his cage with his queer little eyes, and there was a sad

it again. He would never climb the big trees, and swing from one branch to another. He would not play tag with his brothers and si

was that he was in a little crate, where he had hardly room

he black men. "We'll take him to the white peop

sh any harm to happen to his father or mother, or sisters or brothers,

Mappo's box, and, putting the poles over their shou

attered very hard, and cried "Water!" over and over again,

nother path, and they, too, had boxes slung on poles, and in the boxes were other animals. In one was a big stripe

whom I hit on the head with the empty cocoanut," thought Ma

ad. I guess this is the

him, and as he looked out, he saw that his crate was cl

ght poor Mappo. "H