Atondido Stories
After the man had gone away the monkey called out to the little
boy, "O, little boy, O, little boy, don't you wish that you could
see the monkey dance?"
The little boy replied that he wished he could.
"Just put your eyes down to the door of my little cave, and I'll
let you see the monkey dance, little boy," said the monkey.
The little boy put his eyes down close to the hole in the ground.
No sooner had he done so than the monkey threw dirt into the
little boy's eyes. When the little boy was rubbing his eyes to get
the dirt out of them the monkey made a sudden dash out of the
cave and escaped to the tree tops. When the man returned the
little boy did not dare to tell him that the monkey had escaped.
The man waited and waited and waited there by the hole in the
ground. At last he became tired of waiting and went away.
After that the man tried harder than ever to catch the mon-
key. If he had not had the good luck to catch the monkey nap-
ping one day there is no knowing when he would have got his
hands upon him. One day, however, he caught the monkey nap-
ping. He shut him up in a box and carried him home to the chil-
dren for supper.
The man put a big dish full of water over the fire ready to
cook the monkey. Then he went away to collect more fuel for the
fire. The monkey and his guitar were shut up in the box, and
there, inside the box, the monkey played on his guitar. "Lee, lee,
lee, lee, lee lay, lee lay, lee ray, lee ray." The children came
crowding close to the box.
"O, children, O, children," said the monkey, "don't you wish
that you could see the monkey dance?"
The children replied that they wished they could.
"This box is so small that there is not room enough for me to
dance here," said the monkey. "Just let me out and I'll show you
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