Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business
By John Erickson and Gerald L. Holmes
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The monkey in Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business is a circus monkey whose box fell off one of the circus trucks that pass by the Lopers' ranch. Once the monkey is free, Hank shows a very unlovely side of his character by using the monkey to bully Drover and the ranch chickens. (Pete the Barn Cat isn't made happy, either.) Hank thinks he has it made until the monkey has other ideas. The tormented dogs take refuge in the house. Will they be safe? If the monkey comes in, how can they keep it from making a big mess that's sure to set off Sally May Loper. As Hank has reason to know, Sally May has deadly aim when she throws things. She's quite fond of throwing rocks at our favorite cowdog when she's mad at him.Of the background music, I recognized 'Turkey in the Straw,' 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' 'Beethoven's Fifth,' 'Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,' the 'William Tell Overture' (also known as 'The Lone Ranger' theme), 'My Country 'Tis of Thee,' 'I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair,' and 'Yankee Doodle'.
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Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business - John Erickson
Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business
John R. Erickson
Illustrations by Gerald L. Holmes
Maverick Books, Inc.
Publication Information
MAVERICK BOOKS
Published by Maverick Books, Inc.
P.O. Box 549, Perryton, TX 79070
Phone: 806.435.7611
www.hankthecowdog.com
First published in the United States of America by Texas Monthly Press, 1990, then Gulf Publishing Company, 1990.
Subsequently published simultaneously by Viking Children’s Books and Puffin Books, members of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999.
Currently published by Maverick Books, Inc., 2012.
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Copyright © John R. Erickson, 1992
All rights reserved
Maverick Books, Inc. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59188-114-8
Hank the Cowdog® is a registered trademark of John R. Erickson.
Printed in the United States of America
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Dedication
This one is for Gary and Kim Rinker.
Contents
Chapter One Chapter One Always Precedes Chapter Two
Chapter Two The Mysterious Red Box Appears
Chapter Three We Capture the Box
Chapter Four The Cat Breaks Down Under Heavy Interrogation
Chapter Five A Stranger Emerges from the Box
Chapter Six I Take Charge of the Monkey
Chapter Seven Monkey See, Monkey Do
Chapter Eight The Pasha of Shizzam
Chapter Nine Attacked by a Naked Woman
Chapter Ten Democracy in Action on the Ranch
Chapter Eleven Pasha Breaks the Law and Other Things
Chapter Twelve The Firing Squad
Chapter One: Chapter One Always Precedes Chapter Two
It’s me again, Hank the Cowdog. It was morning on the ranch, the beginning of another spring day. I had been up since before daylight, monitoring the forces of nature and guiding them through their morning routines.
While others sleep, the Head of Ranch Security is out there in the darkness, planning out the day. I had put in orders for the sun to come up in the east, and for a light dew to sprinkle the grass.
At 0700 hours, everything checked out. The sun and dew had followed my orders to perfection. At 0705 I issued a new set of orders, allowing the sun to rise in the sky, and the dew to begin sparkling on the grass.
At 0710, feeling pretty good about things, I made my way up to the machine shed. I had gotten another day off to a good start—or so it appeared. Little did I know that within a matter of hours, Drover and I would discover a Mysterious Red Box out in the pasture that would change the course of our lives.
Perhaps you don’t believe in Mysterious Red Boxes. Well, that’s too bad, because I found one on my ranch. Hang around and you’ll see just how fast one of those things can turn a day around.
When I arrived at the machine shed, I found Drover sunning himself on the south side—sunning himself, gazing up at the clouds, and wasting time.
Hi, Hank.
Well, Drover, I see that you’re sunning yourself, gazing up at the clouds, and wasting time.
He grinned. Yeah, I get a kick out of that.
You certainly do.
I kicked him in the behind. There’s your kick. Now get up. We’ve got to make a Cattle Guard Patrol.
But Hank . . .
Hush. And chase rabbits.
Oh rats.
Rabbits.
Oh rabbits.
What?
Nothing.
In security work we have certain jobs that we attend to every day, others that we take care of on a weekly basis. Cattle Guard Patrol falls into the latter category.
It’s one of those jobs that has to be done every once in a while but not necessarily every day. It’s important, but when we get involved with murder cases and reports of monsters on the ranch and other dangerous assignments, we tend to let the cattle guard work slide into the background.
We hadn’t done a thorough Cattle Guard Patrol in several weeks and it was sure ’nuff time to do one. We went streaking past the chicken house, scattering chickens in all directions and barking, Out of the way, you fools!
I get a big kick out of scattering chickens, always have. It’s a very satisfying part of my job. Give me two different routes to choose from, one clear and the other blocked by a bunch of chickens, and I’ll take the chicken route every time.
There’s something about the way they squawk and flap their wings that gives me a feeling of . . . something. Power. Total control. Superiority. It seems to tune up my savage instincts and get my blood to pumping.
Chickens were put on this earth to be scattered, and your better breeds of dogs rarely miss a chance to run through a crowd of them.
After plowing through the chickens and leaving them in squawking disarray, we continued on a northwesterly course out into the home pasture, and beyond to the country road. There we found the cattle guard, just where it had been the last time we’d patrolled it.
All right, Drover, do you remember the procedure we follow on cattle guards?
Well, let’s see. It’s been a long time. Seems to me that we . . . bark?
That’s correct up to a point, but also incorrect up to a point. Perhaps I should refresh your memory. Are you ready for me to outline our procedure for Cattle Guard Patrol?
He yawned.
What kind of answer is that?
It wasn’t an answer. I just yawned.
"I know you yawned, you yo-yo, and