Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-27
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
Fairies at Work
by DADDY
CHAPTER III (,
Teasing the Monkeys

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CHATTER chatter! chatter The
~ monkey mothers at their party
talked fast and furious!y. They were
enjoying themselves merrily and didn't
have any idea that in the jungle a poor
little lost monkey baby was crying be-
cause crows were waiting to eat 1t for
dinner. Had they stopped for even a
moment Billy and the fast flying fairies
might have had a chance to tell them
about the lost baby, but the tiny voices
of the fairies couldn't be heard in all
that clatter.
Then into Billy's head popped plan
to make the monkey mothers heed the
danger call. He had heard that monkeys
do not like to be teased. They have
short tempers and fly into sudden
RACES. Perhaps IL the fairies tcased one
of the monkey mothers enough, she
would chase the fairies and they could
lead her to the poor lost baby monkey.
Billy told his plan to the fairies and
they liked It.
"I'll pick out the monkey that looks
as though she had the hottest temper"
said Billy, "and we will all tease that
one."
So Billy picked out a monkey mother
who was shrieking more shrilly than all
the others, and he twitched her ear. 1t
was only little twitch, for Billy was
very tiny now that he was the size Of
the fairies. But Billy twitched again,
and the second twitch made the monkey
mother slap at him as though he were
a mosquito.
Billy lodged away only to twitch the
monkeys other ear. The fairies tickled
her nose and danced In front of her
eyes. The monkey slapped at them and
went on chattering more shrilly than
ever.
Then Billy pulled the monkey
mothers hair. 1t was a tiny pull, but
it hurt. The monkey mother stopped
her chattering to grab at him. Billy
darted away, but the fairies had fol-
monkeys hair. Each gave a sharp
jerk, and the sharp jerks hurt. In an
instant the monkey mother was in q
rage. She jumped at the annoying
fairies and now her shrieks we're
shrieks of anger.
The fairies darted away, but kept
just out of her reach. The monkey
mother thrashed out right and left try
ing to squash the fairies, but she didn't
harm one Of them. Instead she only
banged the other monkey mothers over
their ears and noses. That made the
other monkey mothers mad, and in an
instant they, too, were thrashing out,
and the chatter party became banging
party.
All the time the monkeys were
smashing and thrashing at each other,
Billy and the fairies kept up the teasing
of the monkey mother they had first
picked. They vexed her SO much she
had only one thought-that was to
catch them and punish them for their
impudence. She began to chase them.
She slapped the other monkeys to right
and left but she kept right on through
the party to get Billy, who danced just
ahead Of her nose. He led her away
from the shady grove. across the plain
and toward the jungle where the poor
little lost baby was wailing and kicking
ut the hungry crows.
The other monkeys were vexed at the
way the first monkey mother had
slapped them, so they started after her.
And thus the whole chattering party
rushed for the jungle. That was jus,
what Billy wanted. All those angry
monkey mothers would make short
work Of those three rascally crows.
But fast as the monkeys fled toward
the jungle, they wouldn't have been In
time to save the poor little monkey
baby from the crows, il it hadn't been
for a trick that Peggy and the other
fairies played upon the hungry birds
What that trick was will be told to-
morrow.