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This made the children laugh again, and they would ask their mammas for more pennies. "Ah, he is a fine monkey!" the hand-organ man would say. "He brings me much money." The hand-organ man never let him loose; always was there that chain and string fast to the collar on Mappo's neck.
He wanted to show the man how polite and nice even a jungle monkey could be, when he tried. "You're a nice fellow," the man said, stroking Mappo's back. "Now let's see. I guess I'll teach you first to ride a pony, or a dog, and then jump through paper hoops. After that you can turn somersaults, and sit up at the table and eat like a real child. Oh, I'll teach you many tricks."
The merry little monkey laughed so hard that the next time he tried to tickle Jacko, Mappo's paw slipped, and Jacko, turning around, saw his brother. "Oh ho! So it was you, and not a fly!" cried Jacko. He dropped his fruit, and raced after his brother. Up through the tree, nearly to the top, went the two monkeys, as fast as they could. They laughed and chattered, for it was all in fun.
Mappo's cage, with a number of others, was finally put into a big barn, where it was nice and warm. On the earth-floor of the barn was sawdust, and Mappo saw many men and horses, and many strange things. Finally a man came up to Mappo's cage. "Ha! So these are some of the monkeys I am to teach to do tricks, eh?" said the man. "Well, they look like nice monkeys. And that one seems a little tame.
Well, as long as I am not to be hurt, perhaps it will be fun after all. But I wish they would let my mamma and papa, and sisters and brothers come with me. It is no fun being all by yourself." But of course Mappo's folks were, by this time, a long way off in the jungle woods, wondering where Mappo himself was.
"We make much money to-day," he said to Mappo, for he had a habit of speaking to the monkey as though he could understand. And indeed, Mappo knew a great deal of what his master said. "We will make many pennies to-day," went on the man. "Out by the big show, where everybody will be jolly." He brushed Mappo's jacket and cap, and then, after a very little breakfast, out they started.
Come, Mappo, be lively do tricks and get the pennies," and he shook the string and chain, hurting Mappo's neck. Then the organ began to play. But Mappo did not hear it. He heard only the circus band. And he smelled the sawdust ring. "Oh, I must get back to my dear circus!" he chattered.
Mappo could tell that, because there were scratches and teeth marks in the wood which Mappo knew must have been made by some such little monkey as himself. Mappo's life from then on, for some time, was rather hard. The next morning the hand-organ man fastened a chain to the collar of the monkey, and a long rope to the chain.
Please sell him to me. We will give him a good home, and we will always love him, for what he did for us." "Well, I don't like to lose such a good trick monkey," said Mappo's master, "but I will let you have him. Be kind to him, for he is a good little chap." "Oh, we'll be very kind to him," the baby's papa promised. "We have a dog named Don, and a cat named Tabby. I am sure Mappo will like them.
Once before I was caught and put in one, but I broke out and got away. This time they have been too strong for me. But you can help me to escape." "How?" asked Mappo. "Listen!" whispered the tiger, putting his big mouth, filled with sharp teeth, close to the side of his cage, and nearest to Mappo's crate. "Listen! Your paws are like hands and fingers.
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