Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
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I When Thad had captured the monkey and
shut him safely up in the granary, the minis
ter's wife said she supposed it was foolish,
but she never could bear the sight of
monkey"
She thought it the very queerest thing that
some people were fond of them. There was
a little girl, now, at Rosemary Cottage, the
"children's week" place, at Ryesield, who
was i'll, and it was feared "going into de-
cline" on account of the loss of her pet mon
key. She was little German girl, and her
father had been an organ grinder. While he
was i'll and Just before he died. his organ and
the monkey had been stolen by an escaped
hood and who had also dressed himself in the
organ-grinders clothes, and called himself by
bis name to avoid detection.
1T must be. the very man who was arrested
"And, mercy upon us! this may be the very
monkey"
And then Mary Olive-she was the greatest
girl to own up! Phineas thought he ought to
have known better than, to go shares, witt,
about it. And perhaps. it was good way,
after all; for although Aunt Mira afterward
remarked that they needn't have told the
minister what awful young ones they were"
Phineas, who had lost the basket-that the
peach tree switch was hanging behind the
woodshed door. still the minister didn't seem
to think they had been so very bad. He actu-
ally laughed a little, and Aunt Mira had to
laugh a little, too. for polteness' sake. And
Mrs; Minister. who was young, said she. would
dearly love to play on hand-organ, and when
it was produced she went into raptures over
the dancing figures. and said she didn't blame
them bit-she couldn't have resisted it. And
she wanted to go with them when they car
ried the monkey back to the little girl
So it came about that they all went to Rye
field in the minister's carriage, with the organ
in Aunt M'ria's shawl that he couldn't play
any prank, but when he caught sight, on the
piazza of Rosemary Cottage, of little pale,
yellow-haired girl. no one could hold him any
longer.
He leaped to her shoulder, and twined his
little, lean arms around her neck, and rub
bed his wizened cheek against hers; and she
cried, Zach. Hans!" and Rugged him and
talked German to him, and laughed and cried
in such tumult of joy that it made them all
laugh and cry. too-even Aunt Mira:
And Thad-Practical Thad, who thought SO
much of handsome profit-drew his Jacket
sleeve hastily across his eyes and said he
believed. they'd got their moneys worth,
after all
A day or two afterward another delightful
thing happened. The hand-organ was sent
back to Mary Olive. It was said that the
little German girl would have it SO. An, And her
aunt, with whom she was going to live, and
who kept bake shop, and was well,todo,
said that there was no sale for those old-fash-
oned organs, and it was IAN old thing, any
way, and Mary Olive was more than welcome
TO it," ,
A happy girl was Mary Olive, and so greatly
sought for, socially. on account of the organ
that even Aunt Mira became proud of it, and
would only allow it to be taken from the
Darlor closet on holidays and Saturday after
moons, and sometimes on Sunday nights, after
they discovered that it would play There Is
Happy Land"
AS for little Phienas-well, he was such
lnlucky fellow. he said, that since. the peach
tree switch didn't come out from behind the
Noodshed door for this occasion, he supposed
he ought to be satisfied.