Once more he tried to bite a hole, but he could not.
All of a sudden the nut slipped from his paws, and fell down toward the
ground.
"Oh!" cried Mappo, and he started to climb down after the nut. "My
cocoanut is lost!"
"Look out for the tiger!" cried Jacko. "Look out, Mappo!"
CHAPTER II
MAPPO PLAYS A TRICK
Mappo, who had started to climb down to the ground, to get the cocoanut
he had lost, stopped short when he heard his brother Jacko cry out about
the tiger.
"Don't be afraid," said Mrs. Monkey. "The tiger is not there now. He has
gone, or else I shouldn't have let you try to open the cocoanut, Mappo.
Go on and get it; don't be afraid."
So Mappo went on down to the ground. And, when he reached it, he saw
something that was very strange to him.
"Oh, Mamma!" cried Mappo. "The cocoanut is all broken to pieces. I can
pick out the white meat now. Oh, Mamma, it's all broken."
"Is it?" cried Bumpo, and he hurried down so fast that he hit his nose,
and sneezed.
"Yes, it's all cracked open," said Mappo. "Oh, goodie!"
Of course Mappo didn't just say that in so many words, but he talked, in
his monkey talk, just as you children would have done, had the same
thing happened to you.
"Maybe the tiger broke open the cocoanut for you," said Bumpo, as he
rubbed his hurt nose.
"No, the tiger is not there," said Mrs. Monkey. "You may all go down and
see how Mappo opened the cocoanut."
Down trooped all the five little monkeys, Mappo was the first to reach
his cocoanut.
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