[Gutenberg 17277] • The Story of a Monkey on a Stick

Excerpt: ...if you want to know what I'm doing, I'm cutting up Monkeyshines! That's what I'm doing! Cutting up Monkeyshines!" Pg 60 CHAPTER VI IN A CAVE Out from under a large, green leaf, underneath which he had been sitting, crawled a long green creature. The green creature looked at the brown Monkey, who, after jumping about, sat down on a little hummock of grass to rest. "What did you say you were doing?" asked the bug. "Cutting up Monkeyshines," was the answer. "We Monkeys, whether we are toys or not, call our fun 'Monkeyshines, ' and I thought I'd cut up a few while I was here by myself. I didn't know you minded." Pg 61 "Oh, bless you, I don't mind," said the green creature. "I like to watch you. It is fun. You are quite a jumper, and I am something of a jumper myself." "Who are you?" asked the Monkey. "I'm a Grasshopper," was the answer. "I live here in this green meadow and sing songs all day long." "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Grasshopper," said the Monkey. "Singing songs must be nice." So the Monkey and the Grasshopper sat there talking together. The Monkey told the different things that had happened to him from the time he had awakened in a box on the breakfast table until he fell off Carlo's back. "Do you have any adventures here in the meadow?" asked the chap who had been cutting up Monkeyshines. "Oh, yes, we have had things happen Pg 62 here," said the Grasshopper. "Of course they are not as exciting as those you have told me about. But we rather like them. Do you want to