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The man lifted up the monkey and set him on the dog's back. He also put the reins in Mappo's little paws. "Now go, Prince!" said the man, and he walked along with the dog, holding Mappo on the back of Prince. At first Mappo did not understand what was wanted of him, and when Prince started off, the little monkey grew afraid, and tried to jump down and run away. But the man spoke gently to him.
Very slowly he put out his hand, and, reaching through the bars, he stroked Mappo's soft fur. "That's a good chap!" said the sailor. "I believe you are going to be nice after all." "Bur-r-r-r! Wopp!" said Mappo. That meant: "Of course I am!" In a few days the sailor and Mappo were good friends, and one afternoon the sailor opened the cage door and let the monkey out. Then Mappo grew quite excited.
"Go up and get the pennies!" the man would cry, and he would pull and jerk on the long string so that the collar around Mappo's neck choked and hurt him. Then the monkey would squeal, and hold the chain with his paw, so the pulling on it would not pain him so much. The hand-organ man was not very kind to Mappo. But Mappo made up his mind he would do his best to please his master.
They did not need to have a warm one, for it was never winter in the land where they lived. It was always hot and warm sometimes too warm. There was never any snow or ice, but, instead, just rain. It rained half the year, and the other half it was dry. So, you see, Mappo's house was only needed to keep off the rain. Mappo and the other monkeys did not stay in their houses very much.
If you had seen Mappo's house, you would not have thought it a very nice one. It was just some branches of a tree, twined together, over a sort of platform, or floor, of dried branches. About all the house was used for was to keep off some of the rain that fell very heavily in the country where Mappo lived. But this house suited the monkeys very well.
"I don't want to get lost, either," said Mappo to himself. "I wonder what is going to happen now." Many things happened to him, and also to Tum Tum and the others. Mappo's cage, as well as the cages holding the lions and tigers, were lifted off the ship onto land. Then they were put on big wagons and carted off through a strange place.
Finally Jacko caught Mappo by the tail. "Oh, let go!" begged Mappo. "Will you stop tickling me?" asked Jacko. "I guess so maybe!" laughed Mappo, trying to pull his tail out of his brother's paw. "No, you'll have to say for sure, before I let you go!" Jacko pulled pretty hard on Mappo's tail. "Oh! let go! Yes, I'll be good! I won't tickle you any more!" cried Mappo.
As soon as Mappo's papa, who had gone a long distance from the tree-house to look for some bananas for his family as soon as he heard the shouting about the tiger, he said to himself: "Well, I must get home as quickly as I can, to look after my family. But I'll be careful. I hope Mappo and the others will stay in the tall trees." For Mr.
"Caught in a net, eh?" said Tum Tum. "That is too bad. I was caught myself. But where are you going?" "To a circus," answered Mappo. "So am I!" cried Tum Tum. "This is fine! We'll be in the circus together!" The monkey and the elephant were good friends, for they had known each other in the jungle, Tum Tum often having passed under the tree where Mappo's home was.
That's the way Mappo chattered, not so much to make fun of the bad tiger, as to warn the other monkeys in the woods that the bad striped animal was near, and that there was danger in the jungle. "Chatter-chatter-chat! Bur-r-r-r-r! Whe-e-e-e-e! Zir-r-r-r!" chattered the other monkeys, far off in the jungle, as they heard Mappo's warning. The woods were filled with the sound they made.