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Mappo, the Merry Monkey-Richard Barnum · The Jungle Book

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of MoPo the Merry Monkey. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Shasta, Oakland, California. MoPo the Merry Monkey, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: MoPo and the Coconut. Once upon a time, not so
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  Speaker 1: very many years ago, there lived in a tree in
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  Speaker 1: a big woods a little monkey boy. It was in
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  Speaker 1: a far off country where this little monkey lived, so
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  Speaker 1: far that you would have to travel many days in
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  Speaker 1: the steam cars and in the team ship to get there.
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  Speaker 1: The name of this little monkey boy was Macho, and
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  Speaker 1: he had two brothers and two sisters, and also a
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  Speaker 1: papa and a mama. One sister was named Choo and
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  Speaker 1: the other Cha, and one brother was called Jocko and
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  Speaker 1: the other Bumpo. They were funny names, but then you see,
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  Speaker 1: monkeys are funny little creatures anyhow, and have to be
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  Speaker 1: called by funny names or things would not come out right.
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  Speaker 1: Mapo was the oldest of the monkey children, and he
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  Speaker 1: was the smartest. Perhaps that was why he had so
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  Speaker 1: many adventures. And I'm going to tell you some of
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful things that happened to Mapo while he lived
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  Speaker 1: in the big woods, and afterwards when he was caught
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  Speaker 1: by a hunter and sent off to live in a circus.
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  Speaker 1: But we will begin at the beginning, if you please, Mapo,
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  Speaker 1: as I have said, lived in a tree in the woods.
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  Speaker 1: Now it might seem funny for you to live in
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  Speaker 1: a tree, but became very natural to Mapo. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: creatures live in trees. There are birds and squirrels and
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  Speaker 1: katie DIDs. Of course, they do not stay in the
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  Speaker 1: trees all the time anymore than you boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: stay in your houses all the while. They go down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground to play occasionally. But you will find
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  Speaker 1: the safest place for you is in the tree, said
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  Speaker 1: Mappo's mother to him one day when he had been
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  Speaker 1: playing down on the ground with his brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 1: And while they were down playing a game like your
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  Speaker 1: game of tag, all of a sudden along came a
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  Speaker 1: big striped tiger with long teeth. Run Run fast, everybody, run,
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  Speaker 1: yelled Mappo in the queer chattering language monkeys hues. His
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters scrambled up into the tree where their
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  Speaker 1: house was, and Mappo scrambled up after them. He was
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  Speaker 1: on too late for the tiger nearly caught Mappo by
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  Speaker 1: the tail, but the little monkey boy managed to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, and then he sat down on
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  Speaker 1: a branch in front of the tree house where he lived.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't very nice of that tiger to chase us,
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  Speaker 1: said Mappo when he could catch his breath. No, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: said Missus Monkey. Tigers are not often nice. After this,
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  Speaker 1: you children had better stay in the tree until you
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  Speaker 1: are a little larger at least. But it's more fun
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, said MoPo. That may be, said Missus Monkey,
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  Speaker 1: as she looked down through the branches to see if
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  Speaker 1: the tiger we're still waking to catch one of her
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  Speaker 1: little ones. But Mappo, you and your brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: can run much better and faster in a tree than
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, said Missus Monkey. And this is so.
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  Speaker 1: A monkey can get over the ground pretty fast on
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  Speaker 1: his four legs, as you can easily tell if you
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  Speaker 1: ever watched a hand organ monkey. But they can travel
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  Speaker 1: much faster up in the trees, for there is a
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  Speaker 1: hand on the end of each monkey's four limbs, and
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  Speaker 1: his curly tail is as good as another hand for
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  Speaker 1: grasping branches. So you see, a monkey really has five
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  Speaker 1: hands with which to help himself along in the trees.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why he can swing himself along so
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  Speaker 1: swiftly from one branch to another. That is why it
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  Speaker 1: is safer for monkeys to be up in a tree
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  Speaker 1: than on the ground. There are very few other animals
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  Speaker 1: that can catch monkeys. Once the five handed creatures are
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  Speaker 1: up among the leaves, and monkeys can travel a long
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  Speaker 1: way through the forest without ever coming down to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: They swing themselves along from one tree to another for
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  Speaker 1: miles and miles through the forest. Is it safe to
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  Speaker 1: go down now, Mamma asked Mappo of his mother in
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  Speaker 1: monkey talk. This was a little while after the scare. No,
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  Speaker 1: not yet, she said, said that tiger may still be
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  Speaker 1: down there waiting and hiding. You and Jacko and Bumpo
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  Speaker 1: and chew and cha stay up here, and pretty soon
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  Speaker 1: I will give you a new lesson. Oh, a new lesson,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Jocko. I wonder what kind it will be. We
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  Speaker 1: have learned to swing by our tails and to hang
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  Speaker 1: by one paw. Is there anything else we can learn?
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  Speaker 1: Many things? Said the mama monkey, for she and her
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  Speaker 1: husband had been teaching the children the different things that
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  Speaker 1: monkeys must know to get along in the woods. So
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  Speaker 1: the four little monkeys sat in the tree in front
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  Speaker 1: of their home and for their mother to teach them
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  Speaker 1: a new lesson. If you had seen Mappo's house, you
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  Speaker 1: would not have thought it a very nice one. It
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  Speaker 1: was just some branches of a tree twined together over
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  Speaker 1: a sort of platform or floor of dried branches. About
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  Speaker 1: all the house was used for was to keep off
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  Speaker 1: some of the rain that fell very heavily in the
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  Speaker 1: country where Mappo lived. But this house suited the monkeys
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  Speaker 1: very well. They did not need to have a warm one,
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  Speaker 1: for it was never winter in the land where they lived.
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  Speaker 1: It was always hot and warm, sometimes too warm. There
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  Speaker 1: was never any snow or ice, but instead just rain.
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  Speaker 1: It rained half the year and the other half it
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  Speaker 1: was dry, So you see, Mappo's house was only needed
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  Speaker 1: to keep off the rain. MoPo and the other monkeys
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  Speaker 1: did not stay in their houses very much. They went
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  Speaker 1: in them to sleep, but that was about all the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the time, they jumped about in the trees
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  Speaker 1: looking for things to eat, and once in a while
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  Speaker 1: when there was no danger, they went down on the
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  Speaker 1: ground to play. I guess that tiger is gone now,
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  Speaker 1: said Jacko to MoPo. Let's go down on the ground
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  Speaker 1: again and get some of those green things that are
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  Speaker 1: good to eat. The little monkeys had been eating some
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  Speaker 1: fruit like green pears, which they liked very much, when
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  Speaker 1: the tiger came along and frightened them. Tigers would rather
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  Speaker 1: eat monkeys than green pears. I guess yes, I think
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  Speaker 1: we can go down now, said Mappo, looking through the
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  Speaker 1: leaves and seeing nothing of the savage striped tiger. You'd
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  Speaker 1: better ask mamma, said chew, one of the little girl monkeys. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I will not. I can see as good as she
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  Speaker 1: can that the tiger isn't fair, exclaimed Mappo. You see,
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  Speaker 1: monkey children don't want to mind and be careful any
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  Speaker 1: more than some human children's do. MoPo started to climb
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  Speaker 1: down the tree, holding on to the branches by his
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  Speaker 1: fore paws and by his tail. He was almost to
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and Jacko and Bumpo were following him, when
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  Speaker 1: all at once there was a dreadful roar, and out
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  Speaker 1: sprang the tiger again. Oh run, run, quick, jump back
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  Speaker 1: screamed MoPo, and he and his brothers got back to
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  Speaker 1: their tree house. Not a second too soon. The tigers
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  Speaker 1: snapped his teeth and growled. He was so mad at
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  Speaker 1: being fooled the second time. Here, What did I tell you, monkeys?
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  Speaker 1: You must stay up in the tree, chattered Missus Munkey,
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  Speaker 1: as she jumped out of the house. She had been inside,
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  Speaker 1: shaking up the pile of leaves that were the beds
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  Speaker 1: for her family. We we thought the tiger was gone,
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  Speaker 1: said MoPo, who was trembling because he was so frightened.
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  Speaker 1: But he wasn't, said Bumpo, shivering. No, he was right there,
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  Speaker 1: added Jackal, looking around. Yes, and he'll be there for
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  Speaker 1: some time, said Missus Monkey. I told you I'll be careful. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you'd just sit down, all of you, and don't you
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  Speaker 1: dare stir out of this tree until I tell you too.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you know when the tigger is gone. And
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  Speaker 1: she looked down through the leaves to the ground. He
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  Speaker 1: is still there, said Missus Monkey, for she caught sight
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  Speaker 1: of the stripes of the tiger's skin. She had very
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  Speaker 1: sharp eyes, and though the patches of sunlight through the
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  Speaker 1: jungle leaves hid the bad creature somewhat. Missus Monkey could
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  Speaker 1: tell he was there waiting to catch one of her children.
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  Speaker 1: Your father will be coming along soon, said Missus Monkey
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  Speaker 1: to her children. The tiger may lay in wait for him.
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  Speaker 1: I'd better let him know he must be careful as
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  Speaker 1: he comes along through the woods. So Missus Monkey raised
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  Speaker 1: up her head and called as loudly as she could
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  Speaker 1: in her chattering talk. You would not have understood what
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  Speaker 1: she said even if you had heard it, though, there
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  Speaker 1: are some men who say they can understand monkey talk.
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  Speaker 1: But the other monkeys in the woods heard what the
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  Speaker 1: mother of Mapo was saying, and they too began to
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  Speaker 1: shout in their language. Look out for the tiger. There
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  Speaker 1: is a tiger hiding down under the bushes, look out
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  Speaker 1: for him. Soon the whole junkle was filled with the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the chattering of the monkeys, as one after
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  Speaker 1: another they began to shout. It was a warning, they shouted,
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  Speaker 1: a warning to mister monkey to be careful when he
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  Speaker 1: came near his home, to be careful of the tiger
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  Speaker 1: lying in wait for him. My, what an noise those
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  Speaker 1: monkeys made, shouting and chattering in the jungle. You could
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  Speaker 1: hear them for a mile or more. It was their
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  Speaker 1: way of telephoning to Mappo's papa. Monkeys can't really telephone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that is not the way we do. But
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  Speaker 1: they can shout one after another so as to be
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  Speaker 1: heard a long way off. First one would chatter something
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  Speaker 1: about the tiger. Then another monkey farther off would take
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  Speaker 1: up the cry, and so on until mister Monkey heard it.
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  Speaker 1: So it was as good as a telephone. Anyhow, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as Mappo's Papa, who had gone a long distance
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  Speaker 1: from the tree house to look for some bananas for
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  Speaker 1: his family, as soon as he heard the shouting about
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  Speaker 1: the tiger, he said to himself, well, I must get
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  Speaker 1: home as quickly as I can to look after my family.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll be careful. I hope Mappo and the others
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  Speaker 1: will stay in the tall trees. For mister Monkey well
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  Speaker 1: knew that if his wife and little ones stayed up
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  Speaker 1: in the high trees, the tiger could not very well
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  Speaker 1: get at them, though tigers can sometimes climb low trees. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: missus Monkey was keeping good watch over her little ones.
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  Speaker 1: They had no idea now of going down on the
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  Speaker 1: ground to play, at least as long as the tiger
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  Speaker 1: was hiding near them in the bushes. But I wish
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  Speaker 1: we had something to do, said MoPo, who was a
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  Speaker 1: merry little chap always laughing, shouting, running about, and playing
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  Speaker 1: some trick on his brothers and sisters. Just then he
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  Speaker 1: thought of a little trick. He went softly up behind
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  Speaker 1: Jacko and tickled him on the ear with a long
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  Speaker 1: piece of a tree branch. Jacko thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: fly and put up his paw to brush it away.
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  Speaker 1: Mapo pulled the tree branch away just in time, and
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  Speaker 1: while Jacko was healing the skin off a bit of
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  Speaker 1: fruit to eat it, MoPo again tickled his brother. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that fly, chattered Jackal if I get hold of him,
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  Speaker 1: And again he brushed with his paw at what he
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  Speaker 1: thought was a fly. This made Maple laugh. The merry
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  Speaker 1: little monkey laugh so hard that the next time he
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  Speaker 1: tried to tickle Jackal, Mapo's paw slipped, and Jacko, turning around,
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  Speaker 1: saw his brother. Oho, so it was you and not
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  Speaker 1: a fly, cawled Jackal. He dropped his fruit and raced
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  Speaker 1: after his brother up through the tree. Nearly to the
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  Speaker 1: top went the two monkeys as fast as they could.
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  Speaker 1: They laughed and chattered for it was all in fun. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Jackal caught Mapo by the tail. Oh let go, begged Maple.
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  Speaker 1: Will you stop tickling me, asked Jackal. I guess so, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: laugh to Mapo, trying to pull his tail out of
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  Speaker 1: his brother's paw. No you'll have to say for sure
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  Speaker 1: before I let you go. Jacko pulled pretty hard on
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  Speaker 1: Mapo's tail. Oh let go, Yes, I'll be good. I
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  Speaker 1: won't tickle you any more, cried Mapo. Then Jacko let
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  Speaker 1: go and started to climb down the tree to the
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  Speaker 1: little platform in front of the monkey house. But Mapo
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  Speaker 1: was not done with his jokes. He scrambled down faster
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  Speaker 1: than did Jacko, and finally, when Jacko was not looking,
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  Speaker 1: Mapo grasped the end of his brother's tail and gave
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  Speaker 1: it a hard pinch out. Oh dear, Mamo the tiger's go,
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  Speaker 1: cried Jacko. Ha ha, that's the time I fools you,
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  Speaker 1: laughed Mapo in his chattering way. Then Jacko gave chase
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  Speaker 1: after Mapo again, and the two monkey boys were having
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  Speaker 1: lots of fun in the trees when Missus Monkey called
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  Speaker 1: to them. Jacko, Mapo, come down here. It is time
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  Speaker 1: for your new lesson, and you too, Choo and chaw.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have time to practice a little bit before your
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  Speaker 1: father comes home. And she looked down to see if
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  Speaker 1: the tiger were there, but the bad animal had gone away.
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  Speaker 1: He had heard the monkeys talking about him and sending
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  Speaker 1: a warning all through the jungle where they lived. A jungle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is a great big woods. What lesson is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be? Mama asked Mappole. You'll soon see,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and missus monkey went into the treehouse came
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  Speaker 1: out with a brown, shaggy thing about as big as
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  Speaker 1: a small football. Have you ever seen one of those?
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  Speaker 1: Only of course it was not a football. Oh what
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  Speaker 1: is that, Mama asked? Cha? I know, exclaimed Bumpo as
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  Speaker 1: he tried to climb under a branch and bump his head. Ouch,
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  Speaker 1: he cried. That was why he was called Bumpo. He
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  Speaker 1: was always bumping his head, though it did not hurt
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  Speaker 1: him very much, for he was covered with a heavy
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  Speaker 1: growth of hair. Well what is it if you know,
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  Speaker 1: as MoPo, for he was looking at the big, round,
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  Speaker 1: brown thing and trying to guess what it was. It's
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  Speaker 1: a new kind of banana, said Bumpo, For he and
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  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters were very fond of the soft
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  Speaker 1: red and yellow fruit. Now it isn't a banana, said
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  Speaker 1: missus monkey. It's a coconut. I never saw a coconut
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  Speaker 1: as big as that, spoke Mappo, for his papa had
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  Speaker 1: brought some smaller round nuts to the treehouse and had
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  Speaker 1: said they were coconuts. The little monkeys had not been
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  Speaker 1: allowed to eat any of the white meat inside the coconut, though,
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  Speaker 1: for they were too small for it. Then, yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is a coconut, went on missus monkey. You are now
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  Speaker 1: getting large enough to have some for your meals, and
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  Speaker 1: so I am going to give you a lesson on
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  Speaker 1: how to open a cocoanut. I thought cocoanut was white,
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  Speaker 1: said chew. It is inside, said missus monkey. This cocoanut
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  Speaker 1: I now have has the outer shell still on it.
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  Speaker 1: That is why it is not round like some you
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  Speaker 1: may have seen. Inside this soft covering is a round nut,
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  Speaker 1: and inside that round nut is the white meat. Now, MoPo,
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  Speaker 1: you are a smart little monkey. Let me see if
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  Speaker 1: you will know how to open the cocoanut, and when
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  Speaker 1: you do, you may all have some to eat. Mapo
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  Speaker 1: took the co op it and looked at it. He
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  Speaker 1: turned it over and over in his paws. Then with
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  Speaker 1: his fingers he tried to pull it apart, but he
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  Speaker 1: could not do it. The nut was too hard for him. Next,
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  Speaker 1: he tried to bite it open, but he could not.
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  Speaker 1: Let me try. I can open it, exclaimed Jacko. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it, said Mapo. If you can't, I can,
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  Speaker 1: spoke Bumpo, and he gave a jump over toward Mappo,
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  Speaker 1: and once more he hid his head on a branch.
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  Speaker 1: Bumbo did ouch, He chattered, rubbing the store place with
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  Speaker 1: his paw. Mapo turned the coconut over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking for some hole in it through which
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  Speaker 1: he could put his paw and get out the white meat,
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  Speaker 1: but he saw none. Maybe I could open it, said
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  Speaker 1: Chew gently. Now we must let Mappo have a good try,
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  Speaker 1: said missus Monkey. Then if he cannot do it, then
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  Speaker 1: you may all have a turn. But it is a
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  Speaker 1: good lesson to know how to open a coconut. When
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  Speaker 1: you get to be big monkeys, you will have to
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  Speaker 1: open a great many of them. Mapo was pulling and
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  Speaker 1: tearing at the hard husk of the coconut. If I
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  Speaker 1: had something sharp, I could tear it open, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Then he happened to look up in the tree, and
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  Speaker 1: he saw where a branch had broken off, leaving a
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  Speaker 1: sharp point. Ah, I have it, he cried. He broke
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  Speaker 1: off the branch, and with the sharp point he soon
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  Speaker 1: had torn a hole in the outer husk of the cocoanut.
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  Speaker 1: He pulled the round nut out. I have it, he chattered. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but it isn't good to eat yet, said Bumpo. How
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  Speaker 1: are you going to open the rest of it? Mapo
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  Speaker 1: did not know. Once more, he tried to bite a hole,
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  Speaker 1: but he could not. All of a sudden, the nut
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  Speaker 1: slipped from his paws and fell down toward the ground. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: cried Mapo, and he started to climb down after the nut.
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  Speaker 1: My cocoanut is lost. Look out for the tiger, cried Jacko.
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  Speaker 1: Look out, Mapo. End of chapter one Chapter two of
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  Speaker 1: plays a trick MoPo who had started to climb down
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  Speaker 1: to the ground to get the coconut he had lost,
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  Speaker 1: stopped short when he heard his brother Jacko cry out
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  Speaker 1: about the tiger. Don't be afraid, said missus Monkey. The
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  Speaker 1: tiger's not there now he has gone, or else I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have let you try to open the cocant, Mapo,
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  Speaker 1: go on and get it. Don't be afraid. So Mapo
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  Speaker 1: went on down to the ground, and when he reached it,
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  Speaker 1: he saw something that was very strange to him. Oh mama,
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  Speaker 1: cried Mapo. The coconut is all broken to pieces. I
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  Speaker 1: can pick out the white meat now. Oh mamma, it's
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  Speaker 1: all broken, is it, cried Bumbo, And he hurried down
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: so fast that he hid his nose and sneezed. Yes,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it's all cracked open, said Mapo. Oh goody. Of course
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Mapo didn't just say that in so many words, but
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: he talked in his monkey talk, just as you children
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: would have done had the same thing happened to you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe the tiger broke open the cocoanut for you, said
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Bumpo as he rubbed his hurt nose. No, the tiger's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: not there, said missus Monkey. You may all go down
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and see how Mapo opened the coconut down trooped all
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the five little monkeys. MoPo was the first to reach
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: his coconut. Why, he cried, It fell on a stone
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and smashed open. That's what cracked the shell. Mama, Yes,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I thought it would, said Missus Monkey. And that is
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the lesson you little ones are to learn. You cannot
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: bite open a coconut. You must crack it on a stone.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Mapo dropped his by accident, but it can also be
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: dropped or thrown on purpose. So when you get a coconut,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the first thing to do is to get a sharp
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: stick and take off the outer shell. Then go up
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in a tall tree and drop the inside nut down
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: on a stone. The fall will break it and you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: can then eat the white meat. Oh isn't that a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: nice thing to know? Cried Chew. Yes indeed, said her
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: sister Chaw. I wish we had a cocoanut to break open.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Come up in the tree and I'll give you each one,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: said Missus Monkey. Up into the tree where their house
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was scrambled MoPo and his brothers and sisters. MoPo carried
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: in his paws the pieces of white cocoanut he had
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: broken out of the round brown shell. He nibbled at
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: a piece. Oh doesn't that taste good? He cried, Please
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: give me some begged chaw, holding out one little brown paw. No,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I want it all, said MoPo. Oh you must not
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: be selfish, said missus Monkey. Give your brothers and sisters some, MoPo,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and when they opened their nuts, they will give you some.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: MoPo was sorry he had been a little selfish. He
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: gave each of the other monkeys some cocoanut. Missus Monkey
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: went into the tree house and came out with four
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: other cocoanuts. She gave one each to the other monkeys,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and soon they had torn off the tough outer husk
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: or covering with a sharp stick the way MoPo did.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Then they threw the round brown nuts down on a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: flat stone under the tree, cracking the shell so they
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: could pick out the white meat. Oh but this is good,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: exclaimed MoPo, as he chewed some of the pieces his
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters gave him. All of a sudden, as
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the little monkeys were eating away, there sounded and rustling
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in the trees. Something was coming through the branches. Look out,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: cried Jackal, Run, shouted MoPo. Don't be afraid, children, it's
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: only your papa, said a kind chattering voice, and mister monkey,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: with a bunch of bananas lung over his back, came
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: scrambling up to the tree house. Did you see the tiger,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: asked missus Monkey. No, but I heard the other monkeys
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: calling out about him, so I was careful, said the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: papa Monkey. Are you all right here? Oh, yes, we
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: saw him, time, spoke missus Monkey. Oh, Papa, I can
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: open a coconut, cried MoPo. So can, I exclaimed Bumpo. Look,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and he was in such a hurry to show what
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: he could do that he slipped and bumped his head
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: against MoPo, nearly knocking him off the branch on which
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the monkey boy was sitting. In fact, Mapo did fall off,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: but he had his tail tightly wound around the branch,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: so he did not fall all the way to the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: ground as he might have done. Look out, what are
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you doing, cried Mapo to Bumpo, after having swung himself
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: upon the branch again. Oh dear, I'm sorry. I didn't
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: mean to, said Bumpo. I just wanted to show Papa
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: how I can open a coconut. We can all open coconuts.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: We've had our lessons. Said cha good, cried mister monkey.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: To open coconuts is a good thing to know. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: now here are some bananas I have brought you. He
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: passed around the yellow fruit from the bunch he had
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: brought home. Then, having eaten bananas and coconut, all the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: monkeys went to sleep. That is about all monkeys in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the jungle do eat and sleep. Of course, some of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the younger ones play tricks once in a while. Monkeys
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: are very mischievous and fond of playing tricks. That is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: what makes them so funny in the circus and with
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the hand organ men. When the monkeys awakened, they were thirsty.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Mapo was going down right away to the ground and
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: get a drink at the water pool near the family tree. Wait,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: called his father, stretching out his long hairy arms. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: must first look to see that the tiger is not there, MoPo.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: But the tiger was far away. So the monkeys scrambled
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: down and took long drinks. Then they crawled back into
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: their tree again. For two or three days after this, Mappo,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters practiced their new lesson of opening
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: cocoanuts until they could do it as well as mister
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and missus Monkey. Meanwhile, they had gone off together a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: little way into the woods looking for different things to eat.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: MoPo used to go a little ahead of the others.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Be careful, his mother warned him. If you get too
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: far away from us, the tiger will catch you. Then
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Mapo would come back. One day, after the monkeys had
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: opened some coconuts and eaten out the white meat, Mapo
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: thought of a good trick to play on Bumpo or Jacko.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Down on the ground under the family tree were some
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: empty coconut shells. One was almost whole, with only a
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: small piece broken out. I'll put that piece of shell
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: back in the hole, said Mapo, and it will look
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: as though it had not been opened. Then I'll give
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it to Jacko or Bumpo. They'll think it's a good
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: coconut and try to break it open. Then won't they
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: feel funny when they see it's empty. Mapo was thinking
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: so much about the trick he was going to play
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that he did not look about as he ought to
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: have done, for any signs of danger. He was down
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: on the ground putting the piece of shell back in
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the hole in the empty coconut to play a trick
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: on one of his brothers, when all of a sudden
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: there was a crashing in the bushes right in front
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of MoPo, and out jumped the big yellow and black
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: striped tiger. Oh my, exclaimed MoPo, and he was so
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: frightened that he could not move. End of chapter two,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Chapter three of MoPo the Merry Monkey. This is a
• 37:52
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Shasta, Oakland, California. MoPo the Merry Monkey, Chapter three,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: MoPo in a net. Mapo crouched down on the ground,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: trying to hide under a green bush of the jungle.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: In his paw he held the empty coconut shell with
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: which he was going to play a trick on Bumpo
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: or Jackal. The tiger was creeping slowly, slowly along on
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: his soft, padded feet, just as your cat creeps after
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a bird. MoPo was too frightened to move. Ah growled
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the away down deep in his throat. At last, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: have caught a monkey. Of course, he had not yet
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: really caught Mapo, but he soon would. There was very
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: little doubt of that, Mapo shivered. He wished he had
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: not tried to play the trick. If he had stayed
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: safe up in the tree, the tiger could not have
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: gotten at him. Mapo, with his queer little eyes almost
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: like yours, looked up toward where he knew his tree
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: house was. He was looking to see if his papa
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: or mamma were in sight. Ah, there's no use looking
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: up there, said the cunning tiger, lashing his striped sides
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: with his long tail. There's no one up there to
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: help you. Poor Mapo saw that this was so. There
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: was none of his brothers or sisters up in the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: tree house, nor was his papa or mamma there. The
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: whole monkey family had gone off to look for more cocoanuts,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: since those they had had were all eaten up. Just
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: before starting out, Missus Monkey had said, where is Mapo? Oh,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: he just went on ahead, said Bumpo, who had seen
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: his brother scrambling down the tree toward the ground. Bumpo
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: did not know what his brother was going to do,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: or that Mappo intended to play a trick with the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: empty cocoanut shell. Oh, if he's gone on ahead, then
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: we'll catch up to him, said Missus Monkey. So away
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: they all went, leaving the tree house empty and expecting
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to meet Mapo somewhere on the road through the jungle.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: But they did not, and there was poor MoPo on
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the ground right in front of the bad tiger. The
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: tiger knew none of the monkey family was near the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: tree house except MoPo. That was what made the tiger
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: so bold, for had mister Monkey or Missus Monkey been
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: at home, they would have seen or smelled the tiger.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Monkeys and other creatures of the jungle can often smell
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: danger much better and more quickly than they can see it,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and had mister or Missus monkeys smelled the tiger, they
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: would have kept their little ones safe in the tree
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and would have shouted loudly to warn all the other
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: monkeys of the danger of the bad tiger. Well you
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: can't get away from me this time, growled the tiger,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: speaking in his own language, which Mappo understood very well,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: just as the tiger understood monkey talk. For though monkeys, tigers,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and elephants, as well as cats and dogs cannot speak
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: our language, they have a way of their own for
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: talking one to another. To us It may sound only
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: like chatter, growls, owls, and barks, but it is really talk.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice if we could understand animals as
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: well as they understand us, for they can understand our talk,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you know else, How would a horse know when to
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: start and stop when the driver tells him? Or how
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: would your dog know when to come to you and
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: to lie down when you're tell him to if he
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: didn't understand you, tell me that, if you please. So,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Mappo understood the tiger, and the tiger understood MoPo. The
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: little monkey, still keeping tight hold of the empty coconut shell,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: looked at the crouching tiger as bravely as he could.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Nearer and nearer crept the striped beast. But don't you
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: be afraid. I have a way of saving Mapo, and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it too. Chatter chatter, chip chip
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: WHUIZI went Mapo in his queer monkey talk. That was
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: his way of calling for help. All monkeys do that
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in the jungle when they're in danger. They want a
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: whole lot more monkeys to come and help them. There's
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: no use in your calling that way, growled the tiger,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: deep in his throat, nobody can hear you. Mapo began
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: to believe that this was so. All the monkeys seem
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to have gone away from that part of the jungle.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: He was all alone with the tiger. Now, Mapo was
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a brave little chap But being brave is not going
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: to do one much good when there's a tiger in
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the way. So Mappo thought, besides being brave, he might
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: be polite and ask a favor of the tiger. For
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: animals are often more kind to one another than we think.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: If you watch them sometimes, as I have done, you
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: will see that this is so. So Mappo made up
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: his mind he would ask the tiger as a favor
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: not to bite or eat him. And if he won't
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: be kind to me, thought Mappo, well then maybe something
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: else will happen. Maybe Papa will come with a whole
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: lot more monkeys and drive the tiger away. Or if
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: he does not, well, maybe something else will happen. And
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Napa looked at the empty cocoanut shell in his paw.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Please let me go, mister tiger, begged Mappo. I never
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: did anything to you. Let me go. No, I'll not
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: growled the tiger. I'm hungry and I want something to eat.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I chased after a goat half the morning, but it
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: got away from me. Then I tried to get a
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: little deer, but it ran back with the rest of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the deer. And as the big deer had such sharp horns,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: I dare not go after it. So I haven't had
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: anything to eat, and I'm very hungry. You haven't any horns.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: None of your monkey friends are near, and I going
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: to eat you. Napa looked to see how far it
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: was to the nearest tree. It was some distance off,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: but the little monkey boy knew if he could reach it,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: he would be safe. For in the tree he could
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: run much faster from branch to branch than could the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: tiger on the ground, But in getting over the ground
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: on his fore paws, the monkey was a bit slow,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and the tiger in one jump could grab Mapo. If
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: the monkey started to run, well, there's no use trying
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: to get away from him by running on the ground,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: thought Mapole. He'd have me in a second, and there's
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: no use asking a favor of him. He seems to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: be mad at me. I wonder how I can get
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: away from once more. MoPo looked at the empty cocoanut
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: shell in his paw, the shell with which he was
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: going to play a trick on Jacko or Bumpo. Nearer
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: and nearer to MoPo crept the tiger, lashing his tail
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: from side to side. Tigers always do that, just as
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: cats do when they're trying to catch a bird in
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the garden. Tigers are only big cats, you know, very
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: much bigger and stronger than your pussy. And they always
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: creep slowly, slowly up toward anything they are going to catch,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: until they are near enough to give one jump and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: grab it in their claws. That is what the tiger
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: was trying to do to MoPo. All of a sudden,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: MoPo raised the paw that held the coconut shell. The
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: little monkey Chap made up his mind to be brave
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and save himself if he could take that mister tiger
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: called MoPo all at once. With all his might, he
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: threw the empty coconut shell right at the tiger's head.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Monkeys are very good throwers. They're almost as good as
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: are baseball boys at that sort of thing. Bang went
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the coconut on the tiger's head. It cracked open. I mean,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: the coconut cracked open where MoPo had stuck it together.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: It made quite a noise. Oh my, cried the tiger,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: jumping up suddenly, for he did not know what to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: make of the coconut shell in his face. MoPo had
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: thrown it so suddenly. Then, as the tiger heard the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: cracking of a coconut shell, he thought it was his
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: own head. Tigers are sometimes silly that way, no matter
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: if they are strong and have sharp claws. Oh my head,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: my head, cried the tiger. It is broken, you see.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: He really thought it was the crack of a coconut
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: shell made him think that it was his own silly,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: bad head. Up in the air, reared the tiger on
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: his hind legs. This was just the chance Mapo wanted.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Here I go, thought the little monkey chap. Here's where
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I get away. As fast as Mapo could go, he
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: scrambled over the ground toward the tree where his house
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: was built. By this time, the tiger had seen the
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: empty cocoat shell fall to the ground, and the striped
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: creature knew what had happened. A that monkey, boy, he
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: did that, growled the tiger. He can't fool me that way.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I'll get him I'll fix him for playing tricks on me.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Finding that his head was all right and not cracked
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: as he had feared it was, the tiger gave a
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: big jump and ran after Mappo, but Papo was not
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: waiting for him. The little monkey boy was now far
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: across the open place on the ground and was climbing
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: up into a tree as fast as he could go.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Come back here, growled the tiger, making a spring for Mappo,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: but MoPo was safely out of the way. The tiger's
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: claws ducked in the trunk of the tree, tearing loose
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: some bits of bark, but Mappo was not hurt. He
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: got away safely. Then, sitting up in the tree on
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a high limb, Mappo, as he looked down at the tiger, chattered, ha,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: you didn't get me, after all, you didn't catch me.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I fooled you. Chatter chatter, chat ber, who is poor?
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: That's the way MoPo chattered, not so much to make
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: fun of the bad tiger as to warn the other
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: monkeys in the woods that the bad strike animal was
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: near and that there was danger in the jungle. Chatter chatter,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: chat ber oeizure chattered the other monkeys far off in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: the jungle. As they heard Mappo's warning, the woods were
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: filled with the sound they made. Well, I might as
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: well go away, thought the tiger. They will all be
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: on the lookout for me.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I'll have to wait until after dark to catch a
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: monkey or something else to eat er. But I'm hungry.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: So the tigers slunk away, and I guess no one
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: else in the woods felt sorry that he had not
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: caught Mapo. They were all glad the monkey boy had
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: gotten away, and MoPo was especially glad on his own account. Ah,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: that was a good trick of yours to throw the
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: empty cocoanut shell at the tiger, Mapo, said the old
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: grandfather monkey. High in a tree, Mapo had told his
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: friends the other monkeys what had happened. Yes, indeed, it
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: was said an uncle monkey. Mapo is a smart boy
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: to think of such a trick. This made Mapo feel
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: pretty proud of himself. Do you know where my papa
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and mamma are? He asked. They went off over toward
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the banana grove, said the grandfather monkey. Be careful of
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: the tiger. If you follow them, I will, promised Mapo.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: But the tiger had slunk away now, so Mapo thought
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: it would be safe to travel through the junkle, especially
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: if he kept up in the trees and did not
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: go down on the ground. Off, Mapo started after his folks,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: who had gone on, thinking to catch up to him.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Mapo had not gone very far before he came to
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: a place in the woods where he saw something very strange.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: It was strange and also nice, for down on the
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: ground were a number of pieces of white cocoanut. Well,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: that's good, thought Mapo, cocoanut already shelled to eat. I
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: wonder who could have left that there for me? Maybe
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: my papa or Mamma did, knowing I would come this way. Yes,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that must be it. They are very kind to me.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I'll go down and get some of that sweet cocoanut. Now.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Mapa was not a very wise little monkey. He had
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: not lived long enough to know all the dangers of
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the jungle. There were dangers from tigers and other wild beasts.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Some of those dangers Mapo knew about, and he also
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: knew how to keep out of their way. But there
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: were other dangers from men, from hunters, and these Mapo
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: did not know so well, for as yet he had
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: never seen a man, a human being. Mapo had only
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: lived in the jungle, where men very seldom came, and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: those men were brown or black men. But men knew
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: monkeys were in the woods, and men wanted the monkeys
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: for circuses, for menageries, and for hand organs. That is
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: the reason men try to catch monkeys. Mapo looked all
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: around the forest from the top of the tree where
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: he had come to rest. He saw no signs of danger.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: He saw only white pieces of coconut on the ground.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I'll go down and get some, and then I'll run
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: on and find my papa and mama and brothers and sisters,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: thought Mapo. They will want some of this coconut. Down
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: he went and began picking up the bits of coconut.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: They were rather small pieces, and Mapo had to eat
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: a great many of them before he felt he had enough.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Each piece was a little way beyond the next one,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: and Mapo kept on walking along slowly as he picked
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: them up. Finally he saw a very large piece. He
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: reached for it with his paw, and then all at
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: once something happened. Something like a big spider's web seemed
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: to fall down out of a tree right over Mappo.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: In an instant, he was all tangled up. His paws
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: and tail were caught. He yelled and chattered in fright
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and tried to get loose. But the more he tried,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: the tighter the meshes of the net fell about him.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Poor Mappo was caught. He had been caught by a
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: hunter's net in the jungle, and the pieces of cocoanut
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: were only bait. This as you bait a mouse trap
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: with cheese. Oh, cried Mapo in his shrill, chattering voice.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Oh dear, I am caught. Tighter and tighter the net
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: closed over him. End of chapter three, Chapter four of
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: MoPo the Merry Monkey. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 59:10
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• 59:34
  Speaker 1: in a Box. Poor MoPo was not a merry monkey
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: just then. Usually he was a jolly little fellow, laughing
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: and chattering in his own way, and playing tricks on
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters. Now he felt very little like
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: doing anything of that sort. And to think that I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I was going to play a trick with the epty
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: coconut shell just a little while before this happened to me,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: thought Mapo, as he tried very hard to get loose
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: from the net in which he was all tangled up.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder what has happened to me? Anyhow, said Mapo
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: to himself. And as Mapo did not find out for
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: some little time, I will tell you he had been
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: caught by a native hunter in a net made from
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: long pieces of a trailing vine, which was as strong
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: as a rope. In the country where Mapo lived, there
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: were many people called natives. That is, they had never
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: lived in any country with their own, and they were
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: a queer sort of people. They wore very few clothes,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: for it was too hot to need many. They were
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: a black, savage people, and they lived by hunting with
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: spears and bows and arrows. They hunted wild animals lions, tigers, elephants,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: and monkeys. Some of the wild animals that used for food,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: and others they sold to white men who wanted them
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: for circuses and menageries. And monkeys were generally the easiest
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: to catch. Some of these black, half clothed savage natives
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: had spread a vine net in the forest. The net,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: being made of vines, could not be seen until some
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: animal got close to it, and to make monkeys come
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: close to the net so it would fall down over them.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: When one end was pulled loose by a native hidden
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: behind a tree, bits of coconut were sprinkled about. Monkeys
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: are very fond of coconut, and the natives knew when
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the little long tailed creatures went to pick up the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: white pieces, that they would come nearer and nearer to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: the trapped net until they were caught. That was what
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: happened to Mappo. The little monkey tried and tried again
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to break out of the net, but he could not.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: It was too strong. Tighter and tighter, it was pulled
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: about him until he could struggle no more. He lay there,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: a sad little lump of monkey in the net. Then
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: some black men with long sharp sticks or spears gathered
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: about him and talked very fast and loud. You would
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: not have understood what they said if you had heard them,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: any more than you can understand dog and cat talk.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: But Mapo knew some of what they were saying, for
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: he had lived in the jungle all his life, and
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: these were natives or jungle men. Ha, we caught only
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: one monkey, exclaimed one tall black man with a long spear. Well,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: but he is a good one, another man said, we
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: will take him to the coast in a box and
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: sell him to the white man, who will take him
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: away in a ship. We will get many things for him,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: lots of beads to put around our necks, some brass
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: wire to make rings for our noses and ankles, and
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: red cloth to wear. The natives, you see, did not
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: want money. They wanted beads and bits of shiny brass
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: wire or gay colored cloth to make themselves look as
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: they thought very fine. They even put rings in their
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: noses as well as in their ears to decorate themselves. Ah,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: so this is not the end of me, thought Mappo
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: when he heard the black men thus talking. I am
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: to be put in a box and taken to a ship.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: That seems I wonder what what a ship is like. Well,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: as long as I am not to be hurt, perhaps
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: it will be fun after all. But I wish they
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: would let my mama and Papa, and sisters and brothers
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: come with me. It is no fun being all by yourself.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: But of course, Mappo's folks were by this time a
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: long way off in the jungle woods, wondering where Mapo
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: himself was. If they had seen him in the net,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: they might have tried to get him out, but they
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: did not see him. The net was now pulled so
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: tightly about the little monkey that he was in some pain.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Bring up the box and we'll put him in it,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: said one of the black men. Another native came up
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: with a box made of tree branches nailed together. Is
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: what is called a crate. That is, there were spaces
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: between the slats so Mapo could look out and get air.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Look Out, he may bite you, called one native to another,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: as the crate was placed near the net. Oh I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: won't give him a chance. The other natives said, Ah,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I won't bite, chattered Mappo. But the natives did not
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: understand him. They knew very little of monkey talk. Mapo
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: made up his mind that he would be good for
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: his mama had often told him that was the best
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: way to get along in this world. But I'm sure
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: she never thought I would be caught in a net,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: said Mapo to himself. I wonder if she would mean
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: me to be good now and not bite. I guess
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: she would, so I won't nip anybody. Mapo had very
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: sharp teeth even if he was a monkey, and he
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: could give some good hard bites. But now he was
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: going to be good. The net, with poor Mapo in
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: it was dragged up close to the crate, and a
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: door in the crate was opened. Then part of the
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: net was pulled to one side, and Mapo saw a
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: hole where he thought he might slip out. He gave
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: a jump, hoping he could get back into the tall
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: trees again. And if I do, I'll never eat any
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: more cocoanut unless my mama or Papa gives it to me,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: thought Mappo. So he gave a jump out of the net.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: But in a second he found himself inside the wooden
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: crate or box. He had gone into it when the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: net was open, opposite the door of the crate. In
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: another second, the door was shut and fastened, and Mappo
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: was a prisoner in a new prison. He could not
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: get out no matter how hard he tried. There he
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: is safe and sound, chattered the natives and their queer language,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: which was as much like monkey talk as anything else.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Now we can carry him to the coast and sell
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: him to the white men. Come on, I wonder where
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: the coast is, the Mapo, and I might tell you
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: in case you don't know, that the coast is the seashore.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: The ships in which white men come to the jungle
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: countries go only as far as the seashore. They cannot
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: go on the land or into the interior where the
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: wild animals live, so when the natives catch monkeys or
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: other creatures, they have to carry them to the toast. Well,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: this isn't very nice, thought Mapo as he looked at
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: the little crate inside of which he found himself. I
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: haven't much room to move around here, and I don't
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: see anything to eat or drink. He was not very hungry,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: for he had eaten a lot of the coconut just
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: before being caught in the net, but he was thirsty. However,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: he saw no water, and though he chattered and asked
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: for it as nicely as he knew how, he got none,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: at least not right away. Mapo's fur was all ruffled
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: by being caught in the net, and now he began
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: to smooth that out until he looked more like himself.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: He peered through between the slats of his cage with
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: his queer little eyes, and there was a sad look
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: in them if anyone had noticed. But no one did.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: The natives were getting ready to carry Mapo to the coast.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Poor Mapo looked out on the green jungle where he
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: had lived ever since he could remember. He did not
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: know that he was never to see it again. He
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: would never climb the big trees and swing from one
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: branch to another. He would not play tag with his
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, nor would he open coconuts on a
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: sharp stick and by dropping them on a stone. Mapo
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: was to be taken away from his nice jungle. Of course,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: he did not know all this at once. All he
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: knew now was that he was in a little crate
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: where he had hardly room enough to turn around, and
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: no room at all to hang by his tail. Come on,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: let's start with him, called one of the black men.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: We'll take him to the white people and come back
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: and catch some more monkeys. Oh I hope they catch
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: some of my folks, thought Mappo. He did not wish
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: any harm to happen to his father or mother, or
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: sisters or brothers, as you know. But he was so
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: lonesome that he wanted to see some of them. The
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: natives thrust long poles through the slats of Mopo's box,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: and putting the poles over their shoulders, off through the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: jungle they started to march. Poor Mappo was very thirsty
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: by this time, and though he chattered very hard and
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: cried water over and over again in his monkey language,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: no one paid any attention to him. On and on
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: went the natives, carrying the little monkey in a crate.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: After a while, some of the black men came along
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: another path, and they too had boxes slung on poles,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: and in the boxes were other animals. In one was
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: a big striped tiger, and when Mupple saw him, the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: monkey crouched down in the corner of his box and
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: covered his eyes with his paws. Oh maybe it's the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: same tiger that tried to catch me and whom I
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: hit on the head with the empty cocoanut, thought Mupple.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: If it is, he'll be very angry at me and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: try to get me. Oh, dear, this is too bad.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I guess it is the of me, Mapple cried. The
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: natives carrying Mappole in his box, ran forward with him,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: and as he looked out, he saw that his crate
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: was close to the one in which was the growling
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: striped tiger. Oh oh, oh, thought poor Mappo. He'll get
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: me sure. End of chapter four, Chapter five of Mappo
• 1:14:39
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• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Mapo the Very Monkey, Chapter five Mapo on the ship. Mappo,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: who had taken his paws down from his eyes long
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: enough to look at the striped tiger, now blindfolded himself
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: with his paws again and shivered. All of a sudden,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: the tiger growled, and Mapo shivered still more, a growl
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: and roar as much as you like. Called one of
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: the black natives, you can't get out of their sharp tooth.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: That was the name the jungleman had given the tiger.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: You can't get out of that crate, went on the native.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: And when MoPo heard that, he took down his paws
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: once more and looked at the tiger. He was sure
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: it was the same one at whom he had thrown
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: the coconut, and he wondered how the fierce, strong beast
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: had been caught. Then Mappo looked at the crate in
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: which the tiger was being carried along through the jungle. Hah,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: that's a good strong crate, thought Mappo. It is much
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: stronger than the one I'm in. I guess the tiger
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: can't get out, and I'm glad of it. I mean,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: I am sorry he is shut up, and I'm sorry
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: for myself that I am shut up and being taken away.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: But I would not like the tiger to get loose
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: while I am near him. And indeed, the cage holding
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the tiger was very strong. It had big pieces of
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: tree branches for slats, and it took eight men to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: carry it, for the tiger was very heavy. Side by side,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: slung in their crates on the poles over the shoulders
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: of the black natives, Mapo and Sharp Tooth, the tiger
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: were carried through the jungle. The tiger kept walking back
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: and forth in his cage. It was just long enough
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: to allow him to take two steps one way and
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: two steps the other way, and he kept going back
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and forth, all the while up and down his red
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: tongue hanging out of his mouth, for it was very hot.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: His fur, too, was scratched and cut, as though he
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: had fought very hard before he had let the natives
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: catch him and put him into the crate. Mapo was
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: not so much afraid now, and once, when his cage
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: was close to that of the tiger, the big striped
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: beasts spoke to the little monkey. Of course, he talked
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: in tiger language, which the natives could not understand, but
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Mappo could. Ha, So they caught you too, little monkey,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: asked the tiger. Yes, I got caught in a net
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: while I was eating some coconut, answered MoPo. The coconut
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: was baked, said the tiger. I got caught eating a
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: little goat. The goat was big too, and they caught
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: me in a noose and almost choked me. Then they
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: slipped me in this box when I was half dead.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: If I had had my strength, they never would have
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: gotten me in it. And the tiger roared and growled
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: and tried to break out of his crape, but it
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: was too strong. He could not keep quiet. There, sharp tooth,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: cried one of the black natives, who was marching along
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: beside the tiger's cage. Keep quiet, or I shall hit
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: you on the nose for a stick, and the black
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: man held up a hard stick. The tiger growled away
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: down deep in his throat and kept quiet. But still
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: he spoke to Mapo. Now and then seems to me,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: I have seen you before somewhere, little monkey, said sharp tooth. Yes,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: you you tried to eat me. If you please, said MoPo,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: who spoke politely because he was still afraid of the tiger,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: did i asked the tiger. Well, I have to live,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: you know, and I have eaten so many monkeys that
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: one more or less doesn't matter. So I tried to
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: eat you.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder why I didn't finish. I usually eat what
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: I set out to. I I hit you on the
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: head with an empty coconut shell and ran away, said mappo.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so you did, exclaimed the tiger. I thought
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: I remembered you. So you're the chap who played that
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: trick on me. Huh, Well, I thought I knew you. Hah, Yes,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: an empty coconut shell, I remember. I was quite frightened.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: I thought my head was broken. But never mind, I
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: forgive you. One shouldn't remember things like that when friends
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: are in trouble. Listen, little monkey, will you do me
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: a favor? What is it? Asked Mappo, wondering how he,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: a little monkey, could do anything to help a big,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: strong tiger. Will you help me get out of this cage?
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: Asked the tiger. How can I inquired Mapo. Very easily,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the tiger said, I know what is going to become
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: of us. We are to be taken to the big
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: ocean water and put in a house that floats on
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the waves. That was what the tiger called a ship,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: a house that floats on the waves. How do you
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: know this is to happen to us, asked Mappo, because
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: I heard the black men talking of it, said sharp tooth.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: And after a long while, we will land in another
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: country where there is no jungle such as we love.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: That'll be too bad, Mappo said. But still it may
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: be nice in that other country, and we may have
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: many adventures.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want adventures, the tiger growled. All I
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: want is to be left alone in my jungle, or
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: I can kill what I want to eat, drink from
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: the jungle pool, and sleep in the sun. I hate
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: these men. I hate this cage. Once before I was
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: caught and put in one, but I broke out and
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: got away. This time they have been too strong for me.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: But you can help me to escape, how asked Mappo. Listen,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: whispered the tiger, putting his big mouth filled with sharp teeth,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: close to the side of his cage and nearest to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Mappo's crate. Listen, your paws are like hands and fingers.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: To night, when the natives set our crates down to
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: take their sleep, you can open your cage, slip out
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: and come over and open mine. I have tried to
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: open my own, but I cannot. However, you can easily
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: do it. Then we will both be free and we
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: can run away to the jungle together. Come will you
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: do it? I am very hungry. I want to get
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: off in the jungle and get something to eat. Mappo
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: thought for a minute. He was a smart little monkey,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: and he feared if he opened the tiger's cage for him,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: the big chap might be so hungry that he would
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: eat the first thing he saw, which would be Mapo himself.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: Will you open my cage for me after dark, asked
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: sharp tooth. I'll think about it, answered back Mapo, but
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: he had no idea of letting out that tiger. I'm
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: sure he must still be angry at me for hitting
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: him with that empty cocoanut, said Mapo. And if he
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: is loose, he can easily crush me with one stroke
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: of his paw. No, I think I will not let
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: him out, though I am sorry he is caught, But
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: I will try to get out my and run back
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: to my mamma and Papa and sisters and brothers. Yes,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: I will do that. After the tiger had asked Mapo
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: to help him get out of the cage, sharp Tooth
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: pretended to go to sleep. He wanted to fool the natives,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: you see, and make believe he was going to be
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: good and gentle. Oh, but won't I roar and bite
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: and scratch when I do get out, thought the tiger.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: Perhaps he would not have hurt Mapo had the monkey
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: opened the cage. But I cannot be sure of that.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: All day long through the jungle tramped the natives, carrying
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: the wild animals in their crates. There were several Besides
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Mapo and Sharp Tooth, there were snakes in big boxes,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: other monkeys, a rhinoceros, a hippotamus, two lions who roared
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: dreadfully all the while, and many other beasts. In fact,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: it was a small circus marching through the jungle, and
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: all the animals had been caught in one way or
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: another to be sold to circuses and menageries. But in
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: this book I will tell you mostly about Mapo, just
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: as in other books I have told you of Squinty,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: the comical pig, and Slicko, the jumping squirrel. Oh, I
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: do wish I had something to eat, thought poor Mappo.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: But he did not see anything for a long time.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: It was getting dark when the natives carrying the crates
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: set them down in the jungle and began to build
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: fires to cook their supper. They were going to camp
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: out in the woods all night, and they had stopped
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: near a pool of water. Mapo smelled the water, so
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: did the other animals, and they began to howl for drinks.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: You remember, I told you, while animals can often smell
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: better than they can see, the natives did not want
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: to be cruel to the animals. They only wanted to
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: sell them to the white people. And the natives knew
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: if the animals did not get something to drink they
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: might die, so pretty soon they began to give the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: beasts water to drink. Mapo got some, and oh how
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: good it was to his little dry throat and mouth.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Don't forget you are going to let me loose in
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: the night, whispered the tiger to Muppo. As it grew
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: darker and darker in the jungle. Mapo said nothing. He
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: pretended to be asleep, but all the same he made
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: of his mind that he was not going to let
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: the tiger loose. When it was all dark and quiet
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: in the camp, Mapo tried to open his own cage
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: with his smart little fingers, but the natives were smarter
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: than the little monkey. They knew all monkeys were very
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: good at picking open boxes, so they made this one
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: for Mappo especially tight. Mapo tried his best, but he
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: could not get out. So after all he did not
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: have to play any trick on the tiger and not
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: let sharptooth out, and he was glad of it. Hist hissed.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: The tiger called from his crape near that of Mappo.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Aren't you going to let me out? I can't get
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: out myself, answered the little monkey. Rough roared the tiger,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: and then he was so angry that he growled and
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: jumped about, trying to break out of his cage. The
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: natives awoke, and one of them, running over to Sharptooth, said,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: quiet there, tiger, or I shall have to hit you
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: on the nose with a stick. But the tiger would
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: not be quiet, and surely enough the black man hit
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: him on the nose with a stick. The tiger howled
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: and then became quiet. All the other animals, who had
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: made different noises when they heard the racket made by
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: sharp grew quiet also. Mapo went back to sleep, after
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: trying once more to open his crate so he could
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: get away in the jungle. I guess I shall have
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: to let them put me on the house in the
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: big water, he said to himself. Never mind, I may
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: have some fine adventures. When morning came, the natives got
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: their breakfast, fed the animals in the crate, and off
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: they started once more through the forest. Mapo looked out
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: of his cage and he could see swinging along in
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: the trees on either side of the jungle path other
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: monkeys like himself, but they were free and could climb
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: to the top of the tallest trees. Mapo called to
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: them in his own language and told them to the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: news to his papa and mama that he had been
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: caught in a net and was being taken away to
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: a far country. The wild monkeys promised that they would
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: let mister and missus Monkey know what had become of Mappo.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: In this way, Mappo's folks learned what had happened to him.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: But they never saw him again, nor did he see them.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: But monkeys are not like a boy or girl. Once
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: they leave their homes, they do not mind it very much.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: They are always willing to look at something new, though
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: of course they may often wish they were out of
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: their cages and back in the jungle again. After some days,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: the natives with the wild animals reached the big ocean.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: Mappo had never seen so much water before. He looked
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: at it through the slats of his crate. A little
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: way out from the shore, he saw what looked like
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: a big house floating on the water. This was the ship. Soon,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: in small boats, all the animals were taken aboard the ship,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: Mapo among them. Now my adventures are really beginning, thought Mapo,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: as he found himself in a cage on deck next
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: to some other monkeys and a big cow with a
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: hump on her back. She was a sacred cow and
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: of chapter five.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: Six Mapo the Merry Monkey. This is a Livery Box recording.
• 1:33:04
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• 1:33:08
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• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: Mapo the Merry Monkey by Richard Barnum, Chapter six, Mapo
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: meets Tum Tum. Mappo did not know what a ship was,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: nor how it floated over the ocean from one country
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: to another, Blown by the wind or pushed by steam engines.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 3: The little monkey could not see much except the other
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: monkeys in crates on the deck near him. Finally, Mapo
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: did hear a deep growl from somewhere behind him. Ha,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 3: snaw the voice. There will be little chance to get away. Now,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: why didn't you let me out of my cage? Monkey?
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: I I couldn't, said Mabo, and he looked around to
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: see the tiger close to him. Sharptooth was in his
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: own cage and could not each Mapo For this. The
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: monkey was very glad all the black men who had
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: carried the well animals through the jungle had gone. Now
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: in their places were white men quite different. Mapo did
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: not know which he liked better, but the white men
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: seemed to be kind, for some of them brought food
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: and water to the animals. Are we on the ship
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: or water house? Now? Asked Mappo, as he felt as
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 3: though he were being moved along. Yes, we are on
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: a ship, and we'll never see the jungle any more,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: said the tiger, oh aw, and he rode very loudly.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: Quiet there, called one of the white men, and he
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: banged with his stick on the tiger's cage. The tiger
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: growled and laid down. Night was quiet aboard the ship,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: which soon started away from the shores of the hot
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: jungle country toward another land where it is warm part
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: of the time and cold part of the time. Mapo
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: was on his way to have many new adventures. For
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: several days, the little monkey boy did nothing but stay
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: in his cage, crouched in one corner, looking out between
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: the sleds. He could see nothing, for all around him
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: were other cages. But when he looked up through the
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: top of his cage, he could see a little bit
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: of blue sky. It was the same kind of blue
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: sky he had looked at from his tree house in
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: the jungle, now so far away, And Mapa did not
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: feel so lonesome or homesick when he watched the white
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: clouds sail over the little patch of blue sky. For
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: you know, animals do get homesick, just as do boys
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: and girls. Often in circuses and menagurees, the animals become
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: so homesick and along so for the land from which
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: they have been taken, that they become ill and die.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: When a keeper sees one of his pet animals getting homesick,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: he tries to cure him. He may put the homesick
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: animal into another cage, or give him different things to eat,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: things he had in his own country. Or the keeper
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 3: may put the homesick animal in with some different and
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 3: new beasts, so the homesick one may have something new
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 3: to think about. Monkeys very often become homesick, but so
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: do elephants, tigers, and lions. It is a sad thing
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: to be homesick, even for animals. But Mapa was not
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: very homesick in the first place. He was not a
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: very old monkey, and he had not lived in the
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: jungle very long, though he had been there all his life.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: Then too. He was anxious to have some adventures, so
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: though when he looked at the bit of blue sky
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: and thought of his home in the deep green woods,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: he had a wish only for a moment to go
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: back there. He had enough to eat on the ship,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: plenty of cool water to drink, and he knew he
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: was in no danger from the tiger or other wild
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: beasts bigger than himself, for the tiger was fastened up
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: in a big, strong age and could not get out. Mappo,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: on board the shop, chattered and talked with the other
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: monkeys in cages all around him. He asked how they
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: had been caught, and they told him it was in
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: the same way as he had been, by picking up
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: good things to eat on the ground, and so being
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: tangled up in a net. And I don't know what
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 3: is going to happen to me now, said a little
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: girl monkey with a very sad face. Oh cheer up,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 3: cried Mapo in his most jolly voice. I am sure
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: something else will happen to all of us. See, we're
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: having a nice ride in the water house, and we
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 3: have all we want to eat without having to hunt
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: for it in the woods. Yes, but I want my
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: Papa and Mamma cried the little girl monkey. Mapa tried
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 3: to make her feel happier, but it was hard work.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 3: As for Mapo himself, he was feeding pretty jolly, but
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: then he was always a merry monkey. As the ship
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: sailed on over the ocean, it left behind the warm
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: jungle country where Mapa had always lived. The weather grew
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: more cool, and the polar bears like cold weather and
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: are happy when they have a cake of ice to
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: sit on. Monkeys do not. Monkeys must be kept very
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: warm or they catch a cold, just as boys and
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: girls do.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: So.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: As the ships sailed farther and farther north on its
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 3: way to a new country, Mappo felt the change. Though
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: he was covered with thick hair or fur, he could
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: not help shivering, especially at night when the sun had
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: gone down. The man in charge of the wild animals
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: that were to go to the circus knew how to
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: look after them. He knew which ones had to be
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: kept warm and which one's cold. You must cover up
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: the monkeys cages these nights, said the man to a
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: sailia one afternoon, as he saw Mappo and the others shivering,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 3: Keep them warm, aye aye, sir, answered the sailor, which
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: was his way of saying yes, sir. Heavy coverings were
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: spread over the monkeys cages every night, but even then
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: Mappo shived and so did the others. It was quite
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: different from the warm jungle, where he could sleep out
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: of doors with only his own fur for a bed quilt.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: I guess we'll have to move the monkeys down below
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: if it gets much colder, said the animal to the sailor.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: They'll freeze up here, freeze, I guess we will, chatted Mapo,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: and he shivered so that he stuttered when he talked.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: Of course, he spoke monkey language, and the men could
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: not understand him, but they could understand his shivering, and
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: soon they began to move the cages to a warmer place.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: Mapo and the other animals who need to be kept
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: warm were lowered through a hole down inside the ship.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: It was in a place called the hold, and it
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 3: was cold at I suppose because it was made to
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: hauld the cargo of wild animals carried by the ship.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: Mapo did not take it so well down in this
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: part of the ship as he had liked it on deck.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: But it was warmer, and that was a great deal. Still,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: he could not see the little patch of blue sky
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: that had reminded him of his jungle home. I wonder
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: what has become of sharp tooth, the big tiger asked Mapo.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: Of one of the other monkeys. Oh, I saw them
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: lower his cage down into another part of the ship,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: said a big monkey. I am glad of it too,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: for I don't like him so near us. He might
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: break out some night and bite us. He wanted me
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: to let him out, said Mapo. Gracious, I hope you
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: didn't think of such a thing, cried the little girl monkey.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 3: No I didn't, Mapa said. How did you happen to know?
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: The tiger asked the big monkey. Oh, he tried to
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: get me once, Mapa answered, and I threw an empty
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: cocoanut shell in his face. You did, cried all the
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: other monkeys. How brave you were, said the little girl monkey.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: Mapa was beginning to feel that way himself. For several days,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: nothing much happened to Mapo. After he and his monkey
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: friends had been moved to the warm part of the ship.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 3: They had things to eat and water to drink, and
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: they slept a good deal of the time. One day,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: the sailor who always fed Mapo, stood in front of
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: the cage and, looking in, said, I wonder if you'd
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: bite me if I petted you a bit. You look
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 3: like a nice chap, and I like monkeys. I wonder
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: if I couldn't teach you some tricks, then you'd be
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: worth more to the circus. You'll have to learn tricks
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 3: in the circus anyhow, and you might as well begin now.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 3: I think I'll pet you a bit. Chatter, chatter, chat,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: burr snip, went Mapo. That meant, in his language that
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: he would not think of biting the kind sailor who
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: had fed and watered him. But the sailor was careful.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: Very slowly, he put out his hand and reaching through
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: the bars, he stroked Maple's soft fur. That's a good chap,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: said the sailor. I believe you're going to be nice
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  Speaker 3: after all. Ber what, said Mapo. That meant, of course
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  Speaker 3: I am. In a few days, the sailor and Mabo
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: were good friends, and one afternoon, the sailor opened the
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  Speaker 3: cage door and let the monkey out. Then Mapo grew
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  Speaker 3: quite excited. It was the first time he had been
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: loose since he had been caught, and he was so
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  Speaker 3: glad to run about and use his legs and tail
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  Speaker 3: that before he knew what he was doing, he had
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: jumped right over the sailor's head and had scrumbled upon
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  Speaker 3: the ship's deck. Oh, a monkey's loose. One of the
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: monkeys has gotten away, cried the sailors. Never mind, I'll
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: catch him, said the one who had been kind to Mapo.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: Mapo ran and leaped. He saw something like a tall tree,
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: only it had no branches on it. But there were
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: ropes and ladders fast to it, and in an instant
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: Mapo had scrambled up them to the top of the
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 3: tall thing. It was the mast of the ship, but
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: Mapo did not know that. Away. Up to the top
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: he went, and, curling his tail around a rope, there
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  Speaker 3: he sat. Make him come down, cried the captain. I
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: can't have a monkey on top of my ship's mast.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: Somebody climb up after him and bring him down. I'll go,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: said a sailor. Now, a sailor is a good climber,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: but none nearly so good as a monkey. Mapa waited
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: until the sailor was almost up to him, and then,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 3: quick a flash, Mapo swung himself out of the way
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: by another rope, and just as he had done in
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: the jungle, he went over to the top of another mast.
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  Speaker 3: There he goes, cried the sailors on deck. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: see he does, said the sailor who had tried to
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  Speaker 3: catch Mapo. You had better come down, spoke the man
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 3: who had left Mapo out of his cage. I think
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  Speaker 3: he'll come down for me. In his hand he held
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  Speaker 3: some lumps of sugar, of which Mapo was very fond.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: Come on down, old chap, called the sailor. No, I won't
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: hurt you. Come and get the sugar. Now. Whether Mapo
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 3: had had enough of being loose, or whether he was
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: too cold for him up on the mast, I can't say.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: Perhaps he wanted the sugar, and again he might have
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: wanted to make trouble for his kind friend, the sailor
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: who had let him out. Anyhow, Mapo came slowly down
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  Speaker 3: and took some of the sugar from the sailor's hand.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: The sailor took hold of the collar around MAPA's neck.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 3: Now look up that monkey, cried the captain. And if
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: he runs away again, we'll whip him. No, it was
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  Speaker 3: my fault. The sailor said, and I liked him to
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 3: be loose. I can teach him some tricks, all right,
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  Speaker 3: Do as you like, the captain spoke, only keep him
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: off the mast. I'm not going up there again, thought
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: Maple to himself. It is too cold. Come along, said
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: the sailor, giving him another lump of sugar, and Mapa
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: put one hairy little paw in the hand of the
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 3: sailor and walked along the deck with him. I guess
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: you were just scared, old fellow, the man said to
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: the monkey. When you get quieted down, you and I
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: shall have lots of fun. You are almost as nice
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: as my elephant, Tom Tom. This was the first Mappo
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  Speaker 3: had heard of the eleph He knew what they were,
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 3: for he had often seen the big creatures in the jungle,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: crashing their way through the trees, even pulling some up
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: by the roots in their strong tongues to eat the
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: tender green tops of the trees. I didn't know there
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: was an elephant on the ship, thought Mapo, but he
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: was soon to find out there was. Two or three
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: days after this, Mapo was let out of his cage
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 3: once more. This time he did not jump and run
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 3: he stayed quietly beside the sailor and put his paw
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 3: into the man's hand. That's the way to do it,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: said the sailor. Come now, we'll go blow and see
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: Tom Tam down into a deep part of the ship
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 3: near the bottom. The sailor took Mapo. Then the monkey
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: could see a number of elephants changed the walls. They
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: were swaying their big bodies to and fro and swinging
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: their trunks. The sailor went up to the biggest elephant
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 3: of them all, and so Mapa thought the most jolly
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 3: looking and said, Tam Tam have brought someone to see you.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: Here is a little monkey. Mappo looked up and saw
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 3: a jolly twinkle in the little eyes of Tum Tum.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 3: Mapo new elephants were never unkind to monkeys, and a
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: moment later Mapo had given a jump up to the
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 3: shoulder of the sailor and then right on the back
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: of Tum Tum. End of chapter six.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Mapo the Merry Monkey. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Mapo in the circus, Well, I declare, exclaimed the sailor
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: who had brought Mapo downstairs in the ship to see
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: Tom Tom, the jelly elephant. You two animals seemed to
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: get along fine together, And indeed MoPo and Tum Tum
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: were the best of friends at once. Elephants and monkeys
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: very seldom quarrel, and they lived together in peace, even
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: in the jungle, and do not fight and bite and
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: scratch as some wild beasts do. Hello, said MoPo to
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Tum Tom, as the little monkey sat on the elephant's back. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Hello yourself, answered Tom Tom, and his voice was deep
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: and rumbling away down in his long nose or trunk,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: while Mapo's was chattery and shrill, as a monkey's voice
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: always is. Well where did you come from? Asked Mapo.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: I've often seen you or some elephant friends of yours
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: in the jungle. How did you get on this ship
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: with the other animals. You don't mean to say that
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: the hunter men caught you. You a great, big, strong elephant,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: do you. That's just what they did, Mapo, said Tom Tom,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: and the sailor, looking at the two animals, did not
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: know they were telling secrets to each other. I'll just
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: leave them together a while, said the sailor. I don't
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: believe the monkey will run away, and as he's getting homesick,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: it may make him feel better to be with the
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: elephant a while. Mapo was indeed getting homesick for the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: jungle and for his folks, but when he saw Tum
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: Tum he felt much better. How did they catch you,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: asked the monkey, as the sailor went up on deck,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: while Mappo and the elephants stayed down in the lower
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  Speaker 1: part of the ship where it was nice and warm,
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  Speaker 1: talking to one another. Oh, the hunters made a big,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: strong fence in the jungle, said tum Tum. They left
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: one opening in it, and then they began to drive
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: us elephants along toward it. We did not know what
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: was happening until it was too late, and at last
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: we were caught fast in a sort of big trap
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  Speaker 1: and could not get out. I should think you were
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: so strong that you could easily have gotten out, Napo said, well,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: we did try. We wild elephants, spoke tum Tum. We
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: rushed at the bamboo fence and tried to break it
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: down with our big heads, But tame elephants, who had
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: helped to drive us into the trap, came up and
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: stuck us with their tusks and told us to be
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: good and not to break the fence, and that we
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: would be kindly treated. So we behaved, and after a
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: while we found ourselves on this ship. Do you like
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: it here, asked Mappo. Well it isn't so bad, said
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: Tom Tom. I get all I want to eat, and
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: I don't have to hunt for it. I am to
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  Speaker 1: go in a circus and menagerie, I hear. I don't
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: know quite what that is, do you not, exactly, answered Mapo,
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  Speaker 1: scratching his nose. Well maybe we'll be in it together,
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  Speaker 1: went on Tom Tom. But how did you happen to
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: get caught and brought away from the jungle, little monkey?
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: Then Mapo told of being caught in the net when
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: he picked up the pieces of coconut. Were any other
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: animals caught with you, asked Tom Tom. Oh? Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: hunters had other animals, some monkeys and a big tiger
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  Speaker 1: in a cage. He was named Sharp Tooth. The tiger
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: was Hush whispered Tom Tom through his trunk and looking
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: around carefully, he went on, don't let him know I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Let who know, asked Mappo Sharp Tooth the tiger. Don't
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: tell him I'm here, Tom Tom said, why not? The
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: little monkey wanted to know. Well, because he and I
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: aren't friends, said Tom Tom. You know, in the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: hunters sometimes ride on the backs of myself and my
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: elephant friends to hunt tigers. That's why tigers don't like us.
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  Speaker 1: So don't mention too Sharp Tooth that I'm on board
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  Speaker 1: this ship. I won't, of course, spoke Mappo in his
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: funny monkey talk. But it wouldn't matter anyway. He's in
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: a cage. He might break loose and scratch me, said
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  Speaker 1: Tom Tom, So don't mention it to him. Napo promised
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: not to. He sat up there on the elephant's back
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  Speaker 1: a long time, and they talked of many things that
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: had happened in the jungle woods. Well you two seem
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: to like each other so well that I guess I'll
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: leave you together, said the sailor when he came back
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: and found Mapo asleep on Tum Tum's back. I'll bring
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: the monkey's cage down here, The sailor went on and
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: let him stay. They might just as well get acquainted,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: for they'll be together in the circus anyhow, that will
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: be nice, thought Mapo as he heard what the sailor said.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: Many things happened to Mapo aboard the ship in which
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: he journeyed from the jungle to this country. I have
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: not room to tell you about all of them in
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: this book. Once there came a great storm, so that
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: the big ship rolled and rocked like a rocking chair,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: and Mabo felt ill. So did Tum Tum and the
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  Speaker 1: other elephants, and they made loud noises through their trunks.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: Mapo and the other monkey chattered with fear and even
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: sharp tooth. The big striped tiger in his cage was
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: afraid and growled, while the lions roared like thunder. But
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: finally the storm passed, the sea grew calm, and the
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: animals felt better. Then came a day when Mapo was
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: shut up in his cage again. Most of the time
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: he had been loose to run about as he pleased.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to have to do it, old Chap, said
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  Speaker 1: the sailor friend, but all you animals are going to
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: be taken off the ship now and put ashore, And
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: we don't want to lose you. I don't want to
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: get lost either, said Mapo to himself. I wonder what's
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: going to happen now. Many things happened to him, and
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: also to come Tom and the others. Napo's cage, as
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: well as the cages holding the lions and tigers, were
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: lifted off the ship onto land. Then they were put
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: on big wagons and carted off through a strange place.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: At first, Mappo thought it was a new kind of jungle,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: for he saw some trees. But when Mapo saw many
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: boys and girls, and men and women, all in strange dresses,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: not at all like the brown natives, and when he
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: saw many houses, he knew it could not be a jungle.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Now it was a big city where Mapo had been taken,
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: and it was the city where the circus stayed in
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: the winter, the animals living in barns and in menageries
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: instead of in tents. But when the warm summer came,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: they would be taken out on the road and sent
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: from place to place with the traveling circus. Of course,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: Mapo knew nothing of this, yet neither did tom com.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: Mapo's cage, with a number of others, was finally put
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: into a big barn where it was nice and warm.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: On the earth floor of the barn was sawdust, and
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: Mappo saw many men and horses and many strange things. Finally,
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: a man came up to Mapo's cage. Ha, so these
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: are some of the monkeys I am to teach to
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  Speaker 1: do tricks, eh, said the man. Well they looked like
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: nice monkeys, and that one seems a little tame. I
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: think I'll begin on him, and he pointed right at Mapo.
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  Speaker 1: Better look out, said another man. Maybe he is an
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: ugly chap and will bite you. Oh indeed, I won't,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: chattered Mapo. I guess I know better than that. But
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: of course the circus man did not understand this monkey talk.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: Mapo jumped about in his cage, for he felt that
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: he was going to be taken out, and he was
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: tired of being shut up. He wanted to hang by
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: his tail and do other things as he had done
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: in the jungle. He's a lively little fellow, anyhow, said
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: the circus man as he opened the door of Mapo's cage.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: Come on out, old Chap. He went on, and let's
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: see what you look like. Very gently, he took Mapo out,
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  Speaker 1: and Mapo was very quiet. He wanted to show the
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: man how polite and nice even a jungle monkey could be.
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  Speaker 1: When he tried, you're a nice fellow, the man said,
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  Speaker 1: stroking Mapo's back. Now, let's see. I guess I'll teach
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: you first to ride a pony or a dog, and
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: then jump through paper hoops. After that you can turn
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: somersaults and sit up at the table and eat like
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: a real child. Oh, I'll teach you many tricks. Mapo
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: did not understand very much of this talk. No monkey could.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: But Mappo did understand the word eat, and he wondered
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: when the man was going to feed him, for Mapo
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: was hungry. All around the circus barn, different animals were
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: being taught tricks for the men were training them to
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: be ready for the summer circus. In the big tents,
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: horses were racing about sawdust rings. Men were shouting and
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: calling and snapping long whips. In one corner, a man
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: was trying to make an elephant stand on his hind legs.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: Mappo looked, a second time, Why that's Tom, Tom, he's
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: learning tricks too, said Mapo to himself. That's fine. I
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: hope he and I can do tricks together. Tum Tom
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: did not look very happy. A long rope was fastened
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: to him, and he was being pulled up so his
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: head and trunk were in the air. That's how elephants
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: are first taught to the trick of standing on their
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: hind legs. After a bit, they learned to do it
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: without being hoisted up by a rope. Now, then, monkey boy,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: here we are, exclaimed the man who had taken Muppo
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: out of his cage. The man soon found that Mappo
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: was good. Chat. Now for your first trick, the man said, Here, Prince,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: a great, big, shaggy dog, almost as large as sharp tooth.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: The tiger came bounding into the circus ring right at
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: Maple rushed the dog, barking as loudly as he could hoo.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter seven.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eight of map Other Merry Monkey. This is a
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eight, Maple and his tricks. Mapple the merry monkey,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 3: gave one look at the big dog rushing at him,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 3: and then, with a chatter of fright, sprang right up
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 3: on the shoulder of the circus man. There Mappo sat,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 3: shivering and looking down at the dog, who kept on barking.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 3: Oh so you're afraid, are you, asked the man, as
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 3: he put up his hand and patted Mapple. Well you
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 3: don't need to be a little chap. Prince wouldn't hurt
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 3: you a bit, would you, old chap? Wow wow, barked
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 3: the dog. And I think he meant that he certainly
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 3: would not that he loved monkeys. In fact, anyone would
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 3: have loved Maple. He was so kind and gentle, even
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 3: though he had not had much training. Now, Prince, just
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 3: show this monkey how he can stand on your head,
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 3: went on the circus man. Show him how it's done.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 3: The dog kicked his hind legs up in the air,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 3: and there he was standing up, partly on his head
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 3: and partly on his fore paws. That'll do, Prince. The
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 3: monk called down. Bow wow. But Prince, as he and
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 3: as somersault and stood on his fore feet, you'll soon
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 3: be doing tricks like that. Little monkey went on the
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 3: circus man speaking to Mapo as though the little chap
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 3: from the jungle could understand and answer him. And as
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 3: I have told you, Mapa could understand pretty nearly all
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 3: the man said, but he could not talk back to
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: him except in monkey language, and that the man did
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 3: not understand. Now, Prince said the circus man, Mapo is
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 3: going to have a ride on your back. I want
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 3: you to go slowly with him at first, so he
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 3: will not fall off. Later on you may run fast,
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 3: and we'll have a race with other monkeys on the
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 3: backs of other ducks. And when Mapo has learned to
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 3: ride dog back, I'll teach him to ride ponyback. Bow wow,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 3: BAEd Prince, just as though he understood it all. A
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  Speaker 3: bright red blanket was strapped around Prince like a salad
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  Speaker 3: on a horse, and over the dog's head were put
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  Speaker 3: some straps like the reins of a horse. Those were
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: for Mapo to take hold off. And but then he
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 3: was driving the dog around the ring. All right, now
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  Speaker 3: here we go, cried the man. Come, Mappo. Mapo, who
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: had been watching Tom Tum learn to stand on his
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 3: hind legs now looked at the man and dog. The
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 3: man lifted up the monkey and set him on the
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  Speaker 3: dog's back. He also put the reins in Maple's little paws. Now,
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  Speaker 3: go Prince, said the man, and he walked along with
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  Speaker 3: the dog, holding Mapa on the back of Prince. At first,
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 3: Mapo did not understand what was wanted of him, and
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 3: when Prince started off, the little monkey grew afraid and
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 3: tried to jump down and run away, but the man
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 3: spoke gently to him. There now, old fellow, said the
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  Speaker 3: circus man kindly, No one is going to hurt you.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be all right. Just sit on. Prince won't run
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  Speaker 3: away with you. Mapo was not so frightened now, and
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 3: as the man held him on the dog's back, he
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 3: did not fall off. Around and round in a ring
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 3: went Prince carrying Maple. Finally the monkey saw that he
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 3: was in no danger of falling, and he sat up straighter.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you can go alone now, said the man.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, Prince. Mapa sat up proudly, holding the reins.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 3: He was riding alone, though of course not very fast,
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  Speaker 3: for Prince only walked now. For two or three days,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 3: Maple practiced the trick and each day. He did it
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 3: better each day too. When he had finished it, he
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 3: was given something good to eat, and so was Prince.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: Now we'll try it faster to day, said the man.
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 3: After Mappo had been in the circus about a week.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 3: Run Prince and give Mapo a fast ride. Off, started Prince,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 3: almost before Maple was ready for him. And just as
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 3: you might expect, Mapa fell off and rolled over and
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 3: over in the sawdust. Ber h uff went Maple excitedly.
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 3: Bow wow, bried Prince, capering about hold on. That's not
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 3: the way to do it. You must hold on tightly,
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 3: cried the circus man. Did you hurt yourself Maple? Asked
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 3: Tom Tom, the jolly elephant, who was resting after having
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: stood up on his hind legs he had seen Maple fall. No,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 3: answered the monkey. I didn't hurt myself, but I don't
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 3: like to fall that way. I don't like that trick.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind, spoke Tom Tom kindly. The next time you
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 3: do it and Prince runs fast, just wrap your tail
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  Speaker 3: around him as you used to wrap it around the
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 3: tree limb in the big jungle. Then you won't fall.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 3: That's a good idea. I'll do it. Cried Maple. Now
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 3: we'll try again, said the circus man. Go a bit
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 3: slower this time, Prince. Bow wow, I will bowed the dog.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 3: Once more. Maple took his place on the red blanket
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 3: on the dog's back. He took the reins in his
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 3: little paws that were almost like your hands, and then,
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 3: remembering what Tom Tom had said to him, Maple warned
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 3: his tail around the neck of Prince, but not so
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 3: tightly as to hurt him. Bow wow, what are you
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 3: doing that for, asked the dog. He knew how to speak,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 3: so Mapa would understand him. I am doing it so
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 3: I will not fall off when you run fast, Prince
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 3: answered Maple. Ha ha, very good, laughed Prince. And the
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 3: only way dogs can laugh, which is by barking softly.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good trick, little monkey. If the monkeys were
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 3: as smart as you, then they would learn their lessons
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 3: more quickly. Now hold on tight, for I am going
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 3: to run, I will, promised Maple. The circus man looked
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 3: at what Mapo had done. That is a smart little monkey,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 3: he said. Now he will not fall And this time,
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 3: when Prince started off and ran very fast round the
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 3: sawder string, Mapa did not fall off. His tail, which
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 3: was as good as a hand to him, was wrapped
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 3: about the neck of Prince and kept Maple from sleeping.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 3: Mapo could now do the dog riding trick very well.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 3: No matter how fast Prince ran, the monkey would not
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 3: fall off. A few days later, more dogs and other
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 3: monkeys were brought into the circus ring in the big barn,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 3: and they two raced around, but none of them could
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 3: go as fast as Mapa and Prince, and each time
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 3: they won the race around the sawdust ring. That certainly
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 3: is a smart little monkey. The circus man would say,
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 3: over and over again. I shall teach you many tricks.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 3: I will now see how he can ride on the
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 3: back of a pony, and after that, I will teach
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 3: him to jump through paper hoops. Mapa did not very
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 3: well understand what this meant, but he made up his
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 3: mind he would do whatever was asked of him, and
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 3: that he would do it as well as he could.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 3: A few days later, some little Shedland ponies were brought
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 3: into the barn and Mapa was placed on the back
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 3: of one of them. The pony was a little larger
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 3: than Prince, and Mapa was farther from the ground But
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 3: the monkey had climbed tall trees in the jungle, and
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 3: he was not afraid of going up, even on an
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 3: elephant's back, so of course he was not afraid on
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 3: Trotter the pony. A blanket was strapped on Trotter's back,
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 3: and as there was an iron ring in the strap,
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 3: Mapo stuck his tail through that and so held on.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 3: The other monkeys, who were also to write ponies, saw
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 3: what Mapa was doing, and they did the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Ha.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 3: It's good to have a smart monkey in the circus,
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 3: said the man. He shows the others work to do.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 3: Mapa was so smart and such a good rider that
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 3: he easily took the lead in the race and kept it.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 3: The ponies run faster than the dogs had done. But
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 3: even then neither Mappo nor any of the other monkeys
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 3: fell off, for their tails were in the iron rings
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 3: of the straps. Well, how are you coming on, asked
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 3: Tom Tom of Mappo one day, when they were resting
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 3: after having eaten their dinners. Fine, answered Mapo. I can
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 3: do many tricks. Now what are you learning? Oh? Many things,
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  Speaker 3: answered Tum Tum. I have to play ball, grind a
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 3: hand organ with my trunk and make music. I have
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 3: to play soldier match around and stand up on my
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 3: hind legs and on my head. Is it hard work,
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 3: asked Mable. Yes, but I like it, said Tum Tum.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 3: And some day soon, in another book, I shall tell
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 3: you the many adventures of Tum Tum the Jolly Elephant. Well,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 3: now for a new trick, said the circus man to Mable.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 3: One morning. Soon it will be time for the circus
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 3: to go on the road under the big tents, and
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 3: I want you to do many tricks for the boys
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 3: and girls. I'll do all I can, shouted Maple in
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 3: his monkey language. This time, after he had ridden round
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 3: the ring once or twice on the back of Prince,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 3: the circus man brought out some big wooden hoops covered
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 3: with paper. You are to jump through these, Maple, said
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 3: the man. Come let me show you how to do it.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 3: Mapo's riding on the Prince's back. All of a sudden,
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 3: as Prince went around the sauto string, he came near
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 3: to one of the rings the man held out. Mappo
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 3: did not in the least know what he was to do,
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 3: but all at once the man cut him up off
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 3: the dog's back and fairly touched him through the paper ring.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 3: The paper burst with a crackling noise, and Mappo felt
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 3: himself falling. Oh dear, thought the little monkey. I wonder
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 3: where I shall land. End of chapter eight.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: Chapter nine of Mappo the Merry Monkey. This is our
• 2:10:40
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• 2:10:45
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• 2:10:51
  Speaker 2: Recording by Kenneth Sergeant Gagan. Mappo the Merry Monkey by
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 2: Richard Barnum, Chapter nine, Mappo runs way. Matpa was so
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 2: surprised as he felt himself fairly flying through the paper
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 2: hoop that he did not know exactly what was happening.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 2: I may land on the back of Tum Tum for
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 2: all I know, he thought. But just as he said
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 2: that to himself, he came down on the back of
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 2: Prince as if nothing had happened. Hello, here we are again,
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: cried Prince, running around the sawdust ring with Mapo on
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 2: his back. You did that trick, all right, yes, but
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 2: the man tossed me through the paper covered hoop, said Mappo, wonderingly.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 2: That was to show you how to do it. Went on, Prince,
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: I have seen many monkeys do that trick. Oh, I see,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 2: said Mappo. There's a man with another hoop. I jump
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 2: right through it. Yes, don't wait for him to toss you,
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: Prince said, though he didn't hurt you, did he not
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 2: a bit? Laugh Mafo, who rather liked doing that trick.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 2: Circus man stood up on a little box holding the
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 2: ring all covered with the red paper for Mapo to
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 2: jump through, and the man would have picked Mapo up
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: and tossed him through the ring. Only the monkey did
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: not wait for that. Instead, he gave a jump himself,
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 2: and right through the ring he went, coming down on
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: Prince's back as nicely as you please. Prince kept right
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 2: on running around the sawdust ring. Bye, that's the way
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 2: to do it, cried the circus man, clapping his hands.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 2: I have to get you to show the other monkeys
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 2: how to do it. Mapo, you're the first monkey you
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 2: ever learned that trick so quickly. I guess I told you.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 2: Mappo was a smart little chap. The rest of the
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 2: day he spent practicing jumping through more paper covered hoops,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: doing some of his jumps from the back of a
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: trotter the pony. Then other monkeys were brought in and
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: they watched Mappo. Now let's see if they can do
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 2: it too, said the man, after Mapo has done his
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 2: trick several times. Well, the other monkeys tried, and well,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 2: some of them could do it pretty well. Others fell
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: off or else, we're afraid of the paper hoops. No
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 2: one did it as well as Mappo. From then on
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: the little monkey learned many circus tricks. He did not
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: learn all of them as easily as he had learned
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: to ride the dog or pony or jump through the hoops.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: In fact, it took him several days to learn the
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: trick of turning a somersault, and it took him longer
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: to learn to sit up on a table and eat
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 2: with a knife, fork and spoon, dressed up like a
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 2: little boy with real clothes on. All this while the
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 2: circus animals had remained in the big warm barn, for
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: it was still winter, but spring and summer were coming
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: and would soon be all over the land. Then the
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 2: circus would start out with the tents and the big, red, green,
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: and golden wagons. Other animals were being trained too. Sometime
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 2: the jolly Alvin to do many tricks, and map A
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: loved to watch his big friend with a long trunk
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 2: and the long white tusks sticking out of his mouth.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 2: Sometimes Trainer would sometimes sit on these tusks or sometimes
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 2: trunk and right around the ring. Comti liked his keeper
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: or trainer very much, just as Mappo liked his own
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: circus man. One day, when Mapa had finished doing his
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 2: tricks for the day and had been given a whole
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: ripe yellow banana for himself as a treat for being
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 2: good and smart, the little monkey wandered off to another
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 2: part of the circus barn. Mapo unlike the other monkeys,
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 2: but not kept in a cage or chained up. As
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 2: Mapa was walking along, he came underneath a cage, and
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 2: from over his head came a loud roar. A lion,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 2: cried Mapo, springing away. He'll get me. In the jungle,
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: he and his brothers and sisters had been taught to
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 2: run and hide when a lion roared, and for the
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: moment Mapo did just as he had been used to
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: doing in the jungle. Then he sort of laughed to
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 2: himself in a way monkeys have and he said, Haha,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: that lion can't get at me. He's locked up in
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: his cage. I'm not afraid, but just the same, Mappo
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 2: ran over on the other side of the circus barn
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: and watch the lion from there. A king of beasts,
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 2: as he is called, though a lion is often no
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: braver than any other animal, pace back and forth in
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: his cage. He peered out between the bars and tried
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: to break them with his big paws, but he could not.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 2: Now and then a lion would utter a deep, loud
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: roar as seemed to shake the very ground. I suppose
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 2: he roared as he had it on in the jungle
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: when he wanted to let the other animals know he
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 2: was coming. A lion must be very proud of his roar. Well,
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 2: you can't get me anyhow, I thought, Mappo. You are
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: safe in your cage, and I'm glad of it. Well,
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: how are you today, Tom Tom, asked Mappo of the
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 2: Italian elephant. Tired, very tired, exclaimed Tom Tum. What makes
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 2: you tired? Ask the monkey? Doing so many tricks? The
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: elephant answered, and you know, I'm a big, heavy chap
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 2: and it tires me to run fast around the ring.
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 2: But never mind, will soon be out of here and
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 2: on a journey. Where are we going, asked Mappo, To
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 2: travel from town to town as all circuses do. We
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 2: shall be soon living in tents. The elephant answered, Oh,
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 2: I like that, said Mappo. I'm getting rather tired of
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: staying here so long. And surely enough, a few days
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 2: later the circus started out on the road as it
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: is called. The big, red, golden, and green wagons were
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 2: drawn by many horses and rumbled up and down hills,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: and the wagon, the animals, and tents and other things,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 2: all of which go to make up a circus, were carried.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 2: One day, after a lot of traveling, part of which
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 2: was by train, Mappo and the other animals came to
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 2: a place where a big white tent was set up
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 2: in a wide green field. The tent had been set
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 2: up in the night, ready for the circus.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: Ah.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 2: Now our real circus work will begin, said Tom Tum,
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 2: And so it did. The band began to play, And
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 2: when the tent was filled with boys and girls and
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 2: their papas and mums and rampas and grandma's, there was
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 2: a grand procession of all the performers. The elephants, which
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: sometime was won, also marched around, as did a lot
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 2: of the ponies and dogs. I wonder when it will
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 2: come my turn to do trick, thought Mappo. His turn
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 2: came soon. The kind of circus man who had talked
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 2: the little monkey came and dressed him up in a
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: nice red suit with a little red cap. Then Prince
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 2: the dog was let in wearing a fine yellow blanket.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 2: And now for the race, cried the man. As Mapo
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 2: jumped up on Prince's back. The other monkeys jumped up
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 2: in the backs of the other dogs, and the band
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 2: played off. They ran. Uppo liked it very much, especially
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 2: when the children laughed and clapped their hands, for he
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 2: was glad he had pleased them. Faster and faster went
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 2: the racing dogs, and Mapo and Prince won. Then came
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 2: to jumping through the paper hoops, first when the backs
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 2: of dogs, and afterwards back of ponies, and all these
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 2: tricks Mapo did very well. Then Mapo did his other tricks,
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 2: turning somersaults, standing on his head, and even riding a
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 2: little bicycle the man had made for him. That was
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 2: Mapo's best trick, and one that ended his part in
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 2: the circus. He rode around a little wooden platform on
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 2: the bicycle, holding the flag over his shoulder, and my
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 2: how the children did laugh at that. Mapa did not
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: see all the circus. As soon as his act was over,
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 2: he was taken back to his cage, but he was
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: not chained up. His keeper knew he could trust Mapo
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 2: not to run away. Mapo wandered around the animal ten.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 2: After a while he came to where the tiger's cage stood. Ah,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 2: there you are, snarled sharp tooth striped tiger. As he
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 2: saw him, Mappo, he had a monkey ears to blame
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 2: for me being here. I'm to blame, how asked Mappo. Yes,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 2: you are to blame when on the sharp tooth it
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 2: wasn't over my cage and let me out when we
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 2: were in the jungle. Never mind, I'll fix you when
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 2: I get out of here. And someday I'm going to
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 2: break loose and I get out of here, I'll bite you,
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, thought Mappo. I hope that never happens, and
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: he went off to talk to tomcumb the Jolly elephant.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 2: For nearly a week, the circus traveled from town to town,
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 2: Mappo doing his strucks very well, indeed, once again sharp tooth.
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 2: The tiger said to the monkey chap, Oh, wait until
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 2: I get a hold of you. I was nearly out
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: of my cage last night. The night I'll be out
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 2: for sure, and then i'll fix you or Mappo was frightened.
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 2: The more he thought of the tiger getting loose and
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 2: biting him, the more frightened he became. And that day,
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 2: as Mappo was riding along on his cage and the
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 2: circus wagon, thought he heard the tiger getting loose from
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 2: the big cage. Oh you'll get me for sure, cried Mapo.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 2: He looked up. The door of his cage was open,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: at least a little bit. Mappo pulled it open wider
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: with his paws, and then when none of the circus
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: men were looking, Mappo slipped and dropped down to the road.
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 2: The door of Kates snapshot after Mappo got out, keeping
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 2: the other monkeys in. I'm going to run away, said Mappo.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to stay and let that bad tiger
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 2: catch me. So Mappo ran away. End of Chapter nine.
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Kenneth's Sergeant Gagan, Chapter ten of Mappo the
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: Merry Monkey. This is a liver box recording all librabox
• 2:20:33
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• 2:20:44
  Speaker 2: Mappo the Merry Monkey by Richard Barnum, Chapter ten Mappo
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 2: and Squinty. Mampo, as soon as he got outside the
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: traveling circus cage on wheels, looked all about him to
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 2: see if anyone were watching him, but no one seemed
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 2: to be doing so. His man friend, who I trained
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 2: him to do many tricks, was riding on the seat
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 2: with the driver of the big monkey cage wagon, and
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 2: this man never looked around. Mappo flipped out. All the
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 2: other circusmen were too busy to look after one monkey.
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 2: Mapo slipped down to the dusty country road along which
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 2: the circus possession was then going quickly running across it,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 2: and the merry little monkey hid in the bushes on
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 2: the other side. Slowly, the big circus wagon rumbled past
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 2: the place where Mapo was hiding in the bushes. When
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 2: the cage, in which sharp tooth. The tiger was pacing
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: up and down came the big striped beast growled and roared,
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 2: and to see Mappo, it sounded just as if he
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 2: were saying, where he's that monkey?
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 2: Wait until I get all to him. He wouldn't let
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 2: me out of my cage. And I'll fix him, said
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 2: the tiger. From the last wagon in the procession had
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: gone past, and it was a steam piano which brought
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 2: up at the end. Mapo breathed a long breath. Wow,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: now I'm all right, he thought. He can't find me
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 2: now going over into the woods, maybe there's a jungle
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 2: where I can find some coconuts. Scrambling over rocks, stones
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 2: and fences, Mappo made his way to the big woods.
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 2: The cool and green there much better than a hot,
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 2: dusty road down which the circus procession was rumbling with
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 2: the big, red, green and gold wagons. Mapo was much
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 2: disappointed when he reached the woods. He could not see
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 2: any coconuts or bananas, and those were the things he
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 2: liked best of all. I wonder what I shall eat,
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 2: said Mappo, for he was quite hungry. He ran about
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 2: climbing trees, going up to the top and hanging by
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 2: his tail, and not a chance to do this since
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 2: he had been with the circus and it early was
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 2: lots of fun for him. Soon he felt hungry again.
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 2: He looked around for something to chew. He saw nothing.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, he cried out loud. I wonder what I
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 2: can eat? Hah, cried a grunting little voice near him.
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 2: Why don't you eat acorns as I do? What's that?
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: Who are you?
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 2: Where are you, asked Mappo, looking up and down Here
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 2: I am under the bush? The voice went on, and
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 2: out walked a little pig. What's your name, asked Mappo.
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 2: My name is Squinty, answered the little pig. I suppose
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 2: you've guessed that before I told you, at least those
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 2: of you who have read my other book called Squinty,
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 2: the comical Pig. Squinty, eh, remarked Mapo. That's a queer name.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 2: He called me that because of one of my eyes, squints,
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 2: said the little pig. Say, and he looked up a
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 2: Mapo in such a funny way, with one eye half
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 2: shut and the other one wide open, and with one
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 2: ear cocked forward and the other backward, that Mapo had
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: to laugh my name is Mappo, and I'm from the circus.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 2: I've run away and I'm hungry. The monkey said. Hah,
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 2: I'm running away myself, said Squinty. And I was hungry too,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 2: but I found some acorns to eat. What are acorns
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 2: and where did you run from? Asked Mapo. Acorns are
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 2: nuts good for pigs to eat, Squinty answered, and I
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 2: ran away from my pen. I wish I had something
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 2: to eat, said Mapo. I'm very hungry. Come with me
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 2: and i'll see if I can find you something to eat.
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 2: Squinty said, then you can tell me all about the circus,
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 2: and i'll tell you all about my pen. All right,
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 2: agreed Mapo, and the two little animal friends went off
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 2: together into the woods. Aren't there any coconuts here, asked
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 2: Mappo when they had gone on for some distance. I
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 2: don't know, answered Squinty. What are coconuts? Napout told the
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 2: little pig how coconuts and bananas grew in the jungle,
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 2: and the little pig told him about how he liked
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 2: sour milk and things like that, And after a while
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 2: they managed to find some berries for Mapo to eat,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 2: as he did not like the acorns. Two friends went
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 2: on in the woods for some distance, and they were
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 2: having a good time telling each other about their adventures.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, as Mappo was swinging along
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 2: by his tail and a tree branch, he stopped short
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 2: and cried, hah, they're after me. I guess i'd better run.
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 2: Who's after you, asked Squinty, the circusman. They must have
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 2: found out I ran away. Mappo and Squinty looked through
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 2: the bushes and they saw a number of men in
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 2: red coats and blue trousers coming through the woods. Twinty
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 2: also saw something else. Oh, look, cried the little big
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 2: What is that funny animal with two tails? I'm afraid
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 2: of him, he's so big. Mappa looked and laughed. He
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 2: hasn't two tails, he said, One in his tail and
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 2: the other is his trunk. That is Tom Thumb, the
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 2: circus elephant, and you needn be afraid of him, for
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 2: he is the jolliest elephant and the whole show. But
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be caught, went on Mapo. I
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 2: want to run away further and have more adventures, so
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll go before Tom Tum and the men
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 2: see me goodbye, Squinty. I'm glad I met you, and
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that I met you too, said the comical
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 2: little pig. Then he ran one way through the woods,
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 2: where he did not want to be caught either, and
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 2: Mappo ran the other way. On and on through the
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 2: woods roamed the merry little monkey and the many things
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 2: happened to him. He met Slicko, the jumping girl squirrel,
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 2: and in the book about Slicko you may read all
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 2: about her wonderful adventures. At first, Mappo had lots of
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 2: fun running away from the circus. It was warm, and
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 2: he managed to make himself a little house of leaves
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 2: in the woods where he slept nights or when it rained.
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 2: But for all that, he did not have as good
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 2: things to eat as he had when he was in
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 2: his cage. He missed doing his tricks too, and he
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 2: missed seeing the boys and girls and their parents and
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 2: the big tent. One day, as Mappa was asleep in
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 2: the woods, he was suddenly awakened by feeling himself caught
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 2: by two hands, and a voice cried, Oh, I've caught
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 2: a monkey. I'm going to take him home and keep him. Oh,
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 2: a real live monkey. Napa opened his eyes, and he
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 2: saw that a boy was holding him, and holding him
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 2: so tightly that the little monkey could not get away. Well,
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 2: I'm caught, but he was not very sorry. End of
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 2: chapter ten. Recording by Kenneth Sargent Gagen.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven of MoPo the Merry Monkey. This is a
• 2:27:29
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• 2:27:35
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• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: Recording by Shasta, Oakland, California. Mapo the Merry Monkey, Chapter eleven,
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: MoPo and the organ Man. Some monkeys, if they had
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: been caught by a boy in the woods, would have
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: bit and scratched and thought to get away. But Lapo
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: was both a merry monkey and a good kind one,
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: So when he saw that the boy was holding him tightly,
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: Mapo made up his mind that it would not be
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: nice to try to get away. Besides, he liked boys
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: as well as girls, for so many of them had
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: fit in peanuts in a circus. And I'd rather think
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: that Napo was getting tired of having run away, for
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: he did not find these woods as nice as he
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: thought he would. Oh, Father, look the boy cried, I've
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: caught a monkey, have you really? Asked the man who
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: came up near the boy. Why so you have, he exclaimed.
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: It must have escaped from the circus they went through
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: here the other day. Oh, father, mayn't we keep it,
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: the boy asked, as he patted Mapo. See he is
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: real tame, and maybe he does tricks. Of course, I'm
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: tame and do tricks. Mapo chattered, but the boy did
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: not understand monkey talk. Oh let me keep him, the
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: boy begged of his father. Well I don't know, spoke
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: the man slowly. A monkey is a queer sort of
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: a pet, and we haven't really any place for him.
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: Oh I'll make a place, the boy said, Do let
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: me keep him. Well, you may try, his father said,
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: if the circus men come back after him, you'll have
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: to give up your marking, and he may run away,
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: no matter what sort of a cage you keep him in.
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't believe you will, the boy said. So
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: Mapa was taking home to the boy's house. It was
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: quite different from the circus where the merry little monkey
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: had lived so long. There were no sawdust drinks, no
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: horses or other animals, and there was no performance in
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: the afternoon and none in the evening. But for all that,
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: Mappo liked it. For one thing, he got enough to eat,
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: and the things he liked coconuts and bananas for The
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: boy read in a book what monkeys liked, and he
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: got them for his new pet. The boy made a
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: nice box cage for Mappo to sleep in and tied
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: him fast with a string around the collar, which Mappo wore.
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: But I could easily loosen that string and did away
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: if I wanted to, Muppo thought, as he played with
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: a knot in his odd little fingers. Monkeys can untie
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: most knots, and a chain is about the only thing
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 1: that will hold them. The boy's mother was afraid of
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: Mappo at first, but the little monkey was so kind
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: and gentle that she grew to like him. And Mappo
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: was a very good monkey. He did not bite or scratch.
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: The house where the boy lived was quite different from
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: the circus tent or the big barn where Muppo had
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: first learned to do tricks. There was an upstairs and
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: downstairs to the house, and many windows. Mapo soon learned
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: to go up and downstairs very well. Indeed, and he
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: liked nothing better than to slide down the banisters. Sometimes
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: he would climb up on the gas chandelier and hang
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: by his tail. This always made the boy laugh. See
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: my monkey can do tricks, he would cry. Then one
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: day something sad happened. Mapo was sitting near the dining
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: room window, which was open, and he was half asleep,
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: for the sun was very warm. The little monkey was dreaming,
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: perhaps of the days when he used to sleep in
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: the treehouse in the jungle, or he may have been
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: thinking of the top when he went with the circus.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: Suddenly he was awakened by hearing some music. He looked
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: out in the street, and there he saw a hand
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: organ man grinding away at the crank which made the
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: nice music. Mappo liked it very much. It reminded him
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: a little of the circus music. And as soon as
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: the hand organ man saw the monkey, he cried out, ha,
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: a monkey, Just what I need. My monkey has gone away,
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: and I'll take this new little monkey to go around
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: with me and get the pennies in his cap. Then,
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: before Mappo knew what was going to happen, the hand
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: organ man ran up to the open window, grabbed a
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: little monkey off the sill, and stuffing him under his coat,
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: ran away down the street with him as far as
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: he could go. Let me go, let me out, chattered
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: Mapo in his own queer language. The man paid no
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: attention to him. Perhaps he did not understand what Mapo meant,
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: though hand organ men ought to know monkey talk, if
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: any one does. At any rate, The man did not
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: let Mapo go. Instead, he carried him on and on
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: through the streets until he came to the place where
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: he lived. Now, I'll put a chain and a long
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: string on you and take you around with me when
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: I make music, said the hand organ man. You will
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: have a little red cat to take the pennies the
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: children give you. While he was thus talking, the man
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: thrust Mappo into a box that was not very clean
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: and tossed him a crust of bread. I wonder if
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: that is all I'm going to get to eat, thought Mapo. Oh, dear,
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: I might better have stayed in the circus. It was
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: nice at the boy's house, but it is not nice here.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: Mapo was shut up in the box with only a
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: little water and that one piece of bread crust to eat,
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: and then the hand organ man went to sleep. Poor
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: Mappo did not like this at all, but what could
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: he do. He was shut up in a box, and
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: try as he did, he could not get out. Some
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: other monkey had lived in the box before. Napo could
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: tell that, because there were scratches and teeth marks in
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: the wood, which Mapo knew must have been made by
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: some such little monkey as himself. Mapo life from then
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: on for some time was rather hard. The next morning,
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: the hand organ man fastened a chain to the collar
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: of the monkey, and a long rope to the chain. Now,
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: I'll teach you to climb up on porch houses, go
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: up the rain water pipes, and up to windows to
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: get pennies, said the hand organ man. Come be lively.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: He did not have to teach Mapo very much, for
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: the monkey already could do those things. H I see
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: you are a trick monkey, the man said, so much
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: the better for me. I'll get many pennies from the children.
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: Then every day Lapo was made to go out with
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 1: the man and his hand organ and when the man
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 1: played tunes, Lapo would watch the windows of the houses
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: in front of which his master stopped. The children would
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: come to the windows. When they heard the music, go
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: up and get the pennies. The man would cry, and
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: he would pull and jerk on the long string so
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: that the collar around Mappo's neck choked and hurt him.
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: Then the monkey would squeal and hold the chain with
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: his paw so the pulling out would not pain him
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: so much. The hand organ man was not very kind
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: to Mappo, but Mappo made up his mind he would
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: do his best to please his master. Some day I
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: may get loose, Mappo thought. If I do, I'll run
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: back to the circus and never go away from it again.
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: Oh that's circus, and Tom Tom, I wonder if I'll
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: ever see that jolly elephant again. Thinking such thoughts as these,
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: Mappo would climb up the front of the houses to
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: the windows, scrambling up the rain water pipe, and he
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: would take off his cap and catch in it the
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: pennies the children threw to him. Then, sometimes on the
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 1: porch roof, Napo would turn a somersault or play soldier.
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: Doing some of his circus tricks. Made the children laugh again,
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: and they would ask their mammals for more pennies. Ah,
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: he is a fine monkey. The hand organ man would say,
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: he brings me much money. The hand organ man never
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: let him loose. Always was there that chain and string
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: fast to the collar of Mapo's neck. Mapa was made
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: to wear a little red jacket as well as a cap,
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: and as things had been made for a smaller monkey
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: than he, they were rather tight for him. For many
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: weeks Mappo was kept by the hand organ man and
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: made together pennies. Mapo grew very tired of it. Oh,
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: if I had only stayed with the circus, thought Mappo
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: saw gorrowfully. One morning, the hand organ man got up
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: earlier than usual. We make much money to day, he
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: said to Mappo, for he had a habit of speaking
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: to the monkey as though he could understand. And indeed
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: Mapo knew a great deal of what his master said.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: We will make many pennies to day. Went on the
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: man out by the big show where everybody will be jolly.
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  Speaker 1: He brushed Mapo's jacket and cap, and then, after a
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  Speaker 1: very little breakfast out they started through street after street
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  Speaker 1: they went, but the man did not stop to play
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  Speaker 1: in front of any houses. I wonder why that is,
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  Speaker 1: thought Mapo, for his master had never done that before.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, MoPo saw a big
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  Speaker 1: white tent with gay flags flying from the poles. He
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  Speaker 1: saw the big, red, gold and green wagons. He heard
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  Speaker 1: the neighing of the horses, the trumpeting of the elephants,
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  Speaker 1: and the roaring of the lions, and the snarling of
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  Speaker 1: the tigers. Oh it's the circus. It's my circus, cried
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  Speaker 1: Mopater himself.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was.
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  Speaker 1: Now we make much money, said the hand organ man.
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  Speaker 1: The people who come to the circus have many pennies.
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  Speaker 1: They give them to me when I play. Come, Mappo,
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  Speaker 1: be lively, do tricks and get pennies. And he shook
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  Speaker 1: the string and chain, herting Mapo's neck. Then the organ
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  Speaker 1: began to play, but MoPo did not hear it. He
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  Speaker 1: heard only the circus band, and he smelled the sawdust ring.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I must get back to my dear circus, he chattered. Then,
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  Speaker 1: with one big strong pole of his paws, Mapo broke
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  Speaker 1: the collar around his neck, and as fast as he
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  Speaker 1: could run, he scampered toward the big tent, the tent
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  Speaker 1: where he knew his cage was. Oh how Mapo ran.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter eleven. Chapter twelve of Mapo the Merry Monkey.
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  Speaker 1: the Merry Monkey, Chapter twelve, MoPo and the baby come
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  Speaker 1: back here, Come back, my monkey. He is running away,
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  Speaker 1: cried the hand organ man as he raced after Mappo.
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  Speaker 1: Mappo looked behind and saw his unkind master coming, so
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  Speaker 1: he so the little monkey ran faster than ever. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if I can only find Tom Tum the Jolly Elephant
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  Speaker 1: and get up on his back, that man can never
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  Speaker 1: get me again, thought MoPo. I must find Tom. Into
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  Speaker 1: the big circus tent ran Maple. The show had not
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  Speaker 1: yet begun, and one of the men who was at
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  Speaker 1: the entrance to take tickets, seeing Mapo, cried out, ha,
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  Speaker 1: one of our monkeys must have gotten loose. I'll call
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  Speaker 1: the animal trainer. So Mapo came back to the circus again.
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  Speaker 1: But his adventures were not over that afternoon. When he
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  Speaker 1: had been given his own circus suit, which fitted him
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  Speaker 1: better than the one the hand organ man had put
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  Speaker 1: on him, Mapo went through his tricks in the big tent.
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  Speaker 1: He had not forgotten them. He rode on the back
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  Speaker 1: of Prince the big Dog, and also on Trotter the pony,
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  Speaker 1: coming in first in every race. Then Mapo jumped through
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  Speaker 1: the paper covered w ooops. He played soldier, and he
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  Speaker 1: sat up at the table and ate his dinner with
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  Speaker 1: a knife, fork and spoon, almost as nicely as you
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  Speaker 1: could have done it. He used his napkin too. The
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  Speaker 1: circus traveled on and on. One day it came to
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  Speaker 1: a big city, and some of the tents were set
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  Speaker 1: up in a field near some houses. From his place
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  Speaker 1: near his cage, Mapo could look out of the crack
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  Speaker 1: in the top of the tent and see the windows
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  Speaker 1: of the houses near him. I used to climb in
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  Speaker 1: windows like that, said Mapo to Tom Tom. I used
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  Speaker 1: to go up the rainwater pike to get the pennies
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  Speaker 1: from the children. It must have been fun for you,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom Tom, as you are such a good climber. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't so much fun as you'd imagine, answered Mapo,
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  Speaker 1: as he slyly tickled another monkey with a straw. Mapo
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  Speaker 1: was always up to some trick or other. He was
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  Speaker 1: a very merry Monkey. It was almost time for the
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  Speaker 1: circus performance to start. Mapo was thinking he had better
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  Speaker 1: go and get on his pretty new red, white and
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: blue soup, when suddenly, from outside the tent, he heard
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  Speaker 1: a cry of fire. Fire, fire. Now Mapo knew what
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: a fire was. There used to be a fire in
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: the stove at the big circus barn, and once he
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: went too close and burned his paw. So Mapo knew
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  Speaker 1: what fire meant, even though it was cried in some
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  Speaker 1: other language than monkey. He talked. Then Mapo looked out
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  Speaker 1: of a crack in the tent and he saw one
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  Speaker 1: of the houses near the circus grounds all ablaze. Black
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  Speaker 1: smoke was coming from it. One of those houses is burning,
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  Speaker 1: said Mapo to Tom Tom. The monkey had often seen
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  Speaker 1: the natives in his jungle kindle fires at night to
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  Speaker 1: cook their suppers and also to keep wild beasts away,
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  Speaker 1: for wild beasts are afraid of fire. A house burning, eh,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom Tom. Well that is nothing to us. We
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  Speaker 1: have to go on with the show no matter what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going out to see it, spoke Mapo. I have
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  Speaker 1: a little time yet before I must do my tricks.
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  Speaker 1: Mappo was not chained, so he had no trouble in
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  Speaker 1: slipping under the tent and in going towards the burning house.
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  Speaker 1: There was great excitement. Men, boys, girls and women were
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  Speaker 1: running all around. Some of them were carrying things out
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  Speaker 1: of the blazing dwelling. Then up came the fire engines,
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  Speaker 1: tooting and whistling. Mappo, of course, did not know what
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  Speaker 1: fire engines were. All he cared for was the black
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  Speaker 1: smoke and the bright red fire. Suddenly, a woman in
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  Speaker 1: the crowd began to scream, my baby, Oh, my baby
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  Speaker 1: is up in that room, and she pointed to one
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the house, which was not yet
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  Speaker 1: burning as much as the rest. Oh my baby, she
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  Speaker 1: cried as she tried to run back into the blazing house,
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: but some men stopped her. The firemen, get your baby,
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  Speaker 1: they said, Oh, they will never be in time, the
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  Speaker 1: woman cried. Just then Mapo's circus trainer came running up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh here you are, he cried to Mapo. I was
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  Speaker 1: afraid you'd run away again. No, no, chattered Mapo in
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  Speaker 1: his own language. Mappo reached up and put his arms
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  Speaker 1: around the keeper's neck. Just then the woman cried out,
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  Speaker 1: my baby, Oh, my baby, is left behind in the room,
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  Speaker 1: and the stairs are all on fire. How can I
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  Speaker 1: get him? What is there a baby in the house,
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  Speaker 1: cried Mappo's trainer. Yes, in that room where the window is.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Oh, but we can't get him. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: think we can, said the circus man. Mappo. My monkey
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  Speaker 1: is very strong and he is a good climber. There
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  Speaker 1: is a rainwater pipe going up the side of the house,
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  Speaker 1: close to the window. I'll send my monkey up the
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  Speaker 1: pipe and he can go in through the window, get
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  Speaker 1: the baby and bring it down to you. Oh a monkey,
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  Speaker 1: You could never do that, sobbed the woman. Yes, my
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  Speaker 1: monkey can, the man replied, Here, Mappo, he called up.
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  Speaker 1: You go, and he pointed to the rainwater pipe on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the house. Go in the window and
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  Speaker 1: get the baby. Get the little one and bring her
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  Speaker 1: safely down. Yes, yes, chattered Mapo. Only he spoke in
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  Speaker 1: his language, and the man talked as we talk. But
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  Speaker 1: Mappo understood many times he had been sent up rainwater
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  Speaker 1: pipes by the hand organ man. Of course, this was
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  Speaker 1: a bit different, for this house was on fire, but
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 1: there were not many flames on the side where the
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  Speaker 1: pipe was. Maple sprang for the pipe and began to
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  Speaker 1: climb up it. He did not know exactly what he
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  Speaker 1: was going after, but he knew it must be something important,
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  Speaker 1: or his master would not be so excited. Get the baby,
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  Speaker 1: Get the baby, cried the circus man, for the firemen
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: had not yet come up with their ladders. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they could have saved the baby if they had been
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  Speaker 1: in time, but it would soon be too late. Up
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  Speaker 1: and up the rain water pipe went the nimble Muppo.
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  Speaker 1: In a few seconds he was on the window sill
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  Speaker 1: of the room. He stood there looking down at his master.
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  Speaker 1: Go on in, get the baby and bring her down,
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  Speaker 1: called the circus man, waving his arms at Mappo. Down
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  Speaker 1: into the room jumped Mappo. He knew at once it
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  Speaker 1: was a bedroom, for he had been in such rooms
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  Speaker 1: in the home of the boy who found him in
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  Speaker 1: the woods. And in a little bed close to the
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  Speaker 1: window was something that Mapo at first thought was a
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  Speaker 1: large doll, such as the sisters of the boy used
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  Speaker 1: to play with. Wonder if this is the baby, said Mapo.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it is. I'll carry it down. The baby
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  Speaker 1: was asleep. Mapo took her up in one of his strong,
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  Speaker 1: hairy arms, and very luckily he picked her right side up.
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  Speaker 1: Some monkeys would carry a baby upside down and think
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  Speaker 1: nothing of it, but Mapo was different. With the baby
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  Speaker 1: held closely, the monkey jumped to the window sill again.
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  Speaker 1: And how his master and the others yelled when they
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  Speaker 1: saw him. He has her. Oh, he has your baby,
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  Speaker 1: cried the circus man. Down the rain pipe came Mappo,
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  Speaker 1: carrying the little baby, which was just beginning to wake
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  Speaker 1: up and cry. Mapa gave the little one to his master,
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  Speaker 1: who put the baby in its anxious mother's arms. There's
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  Speaker 1: your child, he said. Oh, what a smart monkey to
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  Speaker 1: save her. Sobbed the woman, but her tears were tears
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  Speaker 1: of joy. Then the fireman put out the fire in
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  Speaker 1: the house and no one was hurt. Mapo choked a
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  Speaker 1: little from the smoke, but he did not mind that.
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  Speaker 1: You surely are a smart monkey, said the circus man
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  Speaker 1: as he took him back to the tent to do
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  Speaker 1: his tricks. The show went on after a while, and
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  Speaker 1: Mappo was more looked at than any animal, for everyone
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  Speaker 1: heard how he had saved the baby. And after the
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  Speaker 1: show was over that night, the father of the baby
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  Speaker 1: went to the circusman and said, I want to buy
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  Speaker 1: the monkey that saved my little girl. Please sell him
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  Speaker 1: to me. We will give him a good home, and
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  Speaker 1: we will always love him for what he did for us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to lose such a good trick monkey,
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  Speaker 1: said Mappo's master. But I will let you have him.
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  Speaker 1: Be kind to him, for he's a good little chap. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be very kind to him, the baby's papa promised.
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  Speaker 1: We have a dog named Don and a cat named Tabby.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure Mapo will like them. We will be
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  Speaker 1: very good to him. And so Mappo, after having lived
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  Speaker 1: in the jungle and afterward joining a circus, went to
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  Speaker 1: live at the home of the Baby after it was
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  Speaker 1: built over, for it was badly damaged by the fire.
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  Speaker 1: And Mapo made friends with Don and Tabby and had
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  Speaker 1: a lovely time. But there are other animals of whose
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  Speaker 1: lives I can tell you. And the next book in
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: this series is going to be called Tum Tum the
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: Jolly Elephant his many adventures. Weren't you afraid when you
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: climbed up that rain water pipe to get the baby?
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: Asked Don, the dog of Mappo. One day, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of climbing, but I was a little afraid of
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  Speaker 1: the fire, said the monkey. I wish I were as
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  Speaker 1: brave as you, said Tabby the cat. Come on, let's
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  Speaker 1: have a game of tag. And the three animal friends
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  Speaker 1: played a game very much like our tag. And now
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  Speaker 1: we will say good bye to them. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: twelve and of Mappo the Merry Monkey by Richard Barnum