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Of a sudden, between the hands of the monkey, who had stopped at about twenty paces, and was watching him with violent grimaces, as if he would like to snap his fingers at him, he caught sight of his precious case. "The beggar!" he said. "If he has not killed me, he has done what is almost as bad. He has robbed me!"
Riquette leaped like a silent shadow after them, but before she reached the roof of red-brown tiles that sloped down to the yard, Jimbo and Monkey were already far away. She strained her big green eyes in vain, seeing nothing but the tops of the plane trees, thick with tiny coming leaves, the sweep of vines and sky, and the tender, mothering night beyond.
The common monkey of India, the Bengal monkey, is found in large companies at low elevations. The Himalayan monkey is abundant from 3,000 to 6,000 feet; and the Himalayan langur frequents the zone from 7,000 to 12,000 feet. The tiger inhabits the Terai at the foot of the mountains, but is only an occasional visitor to Sikkim proper.
And I suppose it does seem funny to be a Monkey on a Stick and then not have your stick with you. But I can tell you where my stick is, Johnnie," said the Monkey to the little Rabbit chap, and then he related his adventure on Carlo's back. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" said all the other little Rabbits, opening wide their eyes when they heard this story. "Tell us another, please!"
Together the boys went out, and Bill, feeling it was high time to escape, leaped out of the plane and dodged out the door. Across the field, Ernest, the two mechanicians, Frank and Horace were talking excitedly. Bill joined the group. "No use talkin' Mr. Jardin," one of the men blurted out as Bill came up. "There is some monkey work going on here. Somebody is foolin' with your plane.
The monkey busied himself, and the light-minded drunkard laughed; and at every fresh gesticulation of the new boot-wearer, the laugh grew louder and more tremendous, till at length it was found impossible to be restrained. The glutton had a laughing-fit. In vain he tried to stop himself; in vain his fingers would have loosened the buttons of his doublet, to give his lungs room to play.
"What d'you take me for?" answered Joses. He poured the stuff into the bucket that Monkey held. It was dark and sweet-smelling. Four-Pound-the-Second sniffed with inflated nostrils. "Hist!" cried Monkey. "What's that?" "Somebury at the door." "The door's all right. I locked it." "He's got a key." "Who has?" "Silver." "Is he on the ramp?" "Ain't he?" snorted Monkey. "Hundred thousand and the gal."
She has been and refused the Earl of Tadcaster." "Refused him what! has that little monkey had the audacity?" "The condescension, you mean. Yes." "And she has refused him?" "And twenty thousand a year." "What immorality!" "Worse. What absurdity!" "How is it to be accounted for? Is it the old story?
"No wonder I have to paint," she said, "when I am so worn out with poverty and hard work not like the lovely Mrs. Q., who has nothing to do all day except spend the money that I ought to have. I'll tell you what it is, my fine fellow: you had better be careful, or I'll have that pretty cuckoo out of her soft nest, and pluck her borrowed feathers off her, like the monkey did to the parrot."
He might be called poor in a double sense; for not only was he such a lazy, idle fellow that he scarcely ever took a stitch, and so seldom had a copper of his own, but he was a miserable workman, and, like an organ-grinder's monkey, or a blind man's dog, obtained more kicks than halfpence. In the same room with him were several other tailors; who sang together one of two tunes as they stitched.
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