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    The Story of a Monkey on a Stick
    The Story of a Monkey on a Stick
    The Story of a Monkey on a Stick
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    The Story of a Monkey on a Stick

    By Harry L. Smith and Laura Lee Hope

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2006
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      The Story of a Monkey on a Stick - Harry L. Smith

      Project Gutenberg's The Story of a Monkey on a Stick, by Laura Lee Hope

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      Title: The Story of a Monkey on a Stick

      Author: Laura Lee Hope

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: December 11, 2005 [EBook #17277]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A MONKEY ON A STICK ***

      Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Emmy and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      MAKE BELIEVE STORIES

      (Trademark Registered)

      THE STORY OF A

      MONKEY

      ON A STICK

      BY

      LAURA LEE HOPE

      Author of The Story of a Sawdust Doll, "The Story

      of a White Rocking Horse, The Bobbsey Twins

      Series, The Bunny Brown Series, The

      Six Little Bunkers Series," Etc.

      illustrated by

      HARRY L. SMITH

      NEW YORK

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS

      Made in the United States of America

      Monkey Shook Paws With Candy Rabbit.

      Frontispiece —( Page 6 )

      BOOKS BY LAURA LEE HOPE

      Durably bound. Illustrated.

      MAKE BELIEVE STORIES

      THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES

      THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES

      THE SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES

      THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES

      Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York

      Copyright, 1920, by Grosset & Dunlap

      The Story of A Monkey on a Stick

      CONTENTS

      THE STORY OF A

      MONKEY ON A STICK

      CHAPTER I

      A STRANGE AWAKENING

      The Monkey on a Stick opened his eyes and looked around. That is he tried to look around; but all he could see, on all sides of him, was pasteboard box. He was lying on his back, with his hands and feet clasped around the stick, up which he had climbed so often.

      Well, this is very strange, said the Monkey on a Stick, as he rubbed his nose with one hand, very strange indeed! Why should I wake up here, when last night I went to sleep in the toy store? I can't understand this at all!

      Once more he looked about him. He surely was inside a pasteboard box. He could see the cover of it over his head as he lay on his back, and he could see one side of the box toward his left hand, while another side of the box was at his right hand.

      And, said the Monkey on a Stick, speaking to himself, as he often did, I suppose the bottom of the pasteboard box is under me. I must be lying on that.

      He unclasped the toes of his left foot from the stick and banged his foot down two or three times.

      Yes, there's pasteboard all around me, said the Monkey. This surely is very strange! I wonder if the Calico Clown has been up to any of his tricks? Maybe he thinks I'm a riddle, and he's going to tell it to the Elephant from the Noah's Ark, or else make a joke of me to the Jumping Jack. I haven't been shut up in a box before—not since the time Santa Claus brought me from his workshop at the North Pole. I wonder what this means?

      The Monkey raised his head and banged it on the box cover.

      Oh, my cocoanut! cried the Monkey, for that is what he sometimes called his head. My poor cocoanut! he went on, as he put up his hand. I wonder if I raised a big lump on my cocoanut!

      But his head seemed to be all right, and, taking care not to bang himself again, the Monkey began pushing on the box cover. It was not heavy, and he slowly raised it until he could look out.

      As I have told you in the other books of this series, the Monkey on a Stick, and the other toys as well, could move about and talk, when they kept to certain rules. You may find out what those rules were by looking in the other books.

      The Monkey on a Stick looked out from beneath the cover of the box, and what he saw surprised him almost as much as he had been startled when he found pasteboard on all sides of him. For the Monkey saw that he was in the room of a strange house, and not in the big toy department of the store where he had lived for so long a time.

      I say! chattered the Monkey to himself, "there is something wrong here. They must have given me paregoric to make me sleep, and then have put me in a box and carted me down to some

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