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Updated: May 10, 2025
One day, as Mappo was asleep in the woods, he was suddenly awakened by feeling himself caught by two hands, and a voice cried: "Oh, I've caught a monkey. I'm going to take him home and keep him. Oh, a real, live monkey!" Mappo opened his eyes, and he saw that a boy was holding him, and holding him so tightly that the little monkey could not get away.
The sailor who had brought Mappo down to see the elephants, smiled as he saw Tum Tum making friends with him. "I guess I'll leave them together," said the sailor. So Mappo went to sleep on Tum Tum's big back. The monkey had not slept very long, before he was suddenly awakened, by finding himself almost sliding off. "What is the matter, Tum Tum?" asked Mappo.
Then the little brown monkey, for such it was, gave a jump from the arms of the sailor, and landed up on the back of the elephant. "Hello, Tum Tum!" cried the monkey. "Why, it's Mappo!" exclaimed Tum Tum. "How did you get here?" "I was caught in a net, when I was eating some cocoanut," the monkey said. I have told you how that happened in a book called, "Mappo, the Merry Monkey."
This time he did not jump and run. He stayed quietly beside the sailor, and put his paw into the man's hand. "That's the way to do it," said the sailor. "Come now, we'll go below and see Tum Tum." Down into a deep part of the ship, near the bottom, the sailor took Mappo. Then the monkey could see a number of elephants chained to the walls.
One day, when Mappo had finished doing his tricks for the day, and had been given a whole, ripe, yellow banana for himself, as a treat for being good and smart, the little monkey wandered off to another part of the circus barn. Mappo, unlike the other monkeys, was not kept in a cage, or chained up. As Mappo was walking along he came underneath a cage, and from over his head came a loud roar.
Monkey, as she looked down through the branches to see if the tiger were still waiting to catch one of her little ones. "But, Mappo, you and your brothers and sisters can run much better and faster in a tree than on the ground," said Mrs. Monkey. And this is so. A monkey can get over the ground pretty fast on his four legs, as you can easily tell if you have ever watched a hand-organ monkey.
"Come along," said the sailor, giving him another lump of sugar, and Mappo put one hairy little paw in the hand of the sailor, and walked along the deck with him. "I guess you were just scared, old fellow," the man said to the monkey. "When you get quieted down, you and I shall have lots of fun. You are almost as nice as my elephant, Tum Tum." This was the first Mappo had heard of the elephant.
"That wasn't very nice of that tiger to chase us!" said Mappo, when he could get his breath. "No, indeed," said Mrs. Monkey. "Tigers are not often nice. After this you children had better stay in the tree until you are a little larger, at least." "But it's more fun on the ground," said Mappo. "That may be," said Mrs.
"You surely are a smart monkey!" said the circus man, as he took him back to the tent to do his tricks. The show went on after a while, and Mappo was more looked at than any animal, for every one heard how he had saved the baby. And, after the show was over that night, the father of the baby went to the circus man and said: "I want to buy the monkey that saved my little girl.
One day, after the monkeys had opened some cocoanuts and eaten out the white meat, Mappo thought of a good trick to play on Bumpo or Jacko. Down on the ground, under the family tree, were some empty cocoanut shells. One was almost whole, with only a small piece broken out. "I'll put that piece of shell back in the hole," said Mappo, "and it will look as though it had not been opened.
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