Monkey Jack and Other Stories

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547348870

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Various

Monkey Jack and Other Stories

EAN 8596547348870

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

MONKEY JACK

A PAIR OF FRIENDS

A RAIN-Y DAY

THE QUARREL

OLD WINTER

THE HARD LESSON

ROB JACKSON'S DOG

THE WIVES OF BRIXHAM

AGRIPPA

FRANK'S BOY

JOEY'S EXPLOIT

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MONKEY JACK

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A lit-tle maid weeps pit-e-ous-ly,

In dire dis-tress de-mand-ing aid;

Her pre-cious ball is up a tree,

And ev-ery boy shrinks back a-fraid.

It hangs a-loft, a shin-ing thing,

Caught by the ve-ry top-most spray,

Where slen-der branch-es ta-per-ing

'Neath the light bur-den move and sway.

Hur-rah! he comes whom all ad-mire,

Whose nim-ble legs, and lis-som back,

And read-y pluck, that naught can tire,

Win him the name of Mon-key Jack.

See how he leaps from bough to bough

To gain that most be-lov'd of balls!

His out-stretch'd hand has caught it now;

The branch gives way—the he-ro falls!