Monkey Jack and Other Stories eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Monkey Jack and Other Stories.

Monkey Jack and Other Stories eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Monkey Jack and Other Stories.

[Illustration]

Some-times his aunt would ask him to take their lunch-eon to the men at work in the fields, for dur-ing hay-ing and har-vest when the work is heav-i-est the men al-ways have a lunch at ten in the morn-ing.

Now on one day when Jo-ey took his bas-ket and left the house for the fields, he got him-self in-to trou-ble, and this was the way.  Close by his un-cle’s house on the main street lived a gen-tle-man who had a fine gar-den.  All a-round it was a high fence and a no-tice was post-ed up, “Tres-pas-sers will be pros-e-cu-ted.”  That no-tice was be-cause the school house was not far a-way, and the boys some-times helped them-selves to the old gen-tle-man’s ap-ples.

Jo-ey had to pass di-rect-ly by the gar-den wall, and it so hap-pened that his bas-ket was heav-y and he set it down to rest.

What took place you can see in the pic-ture on the next page bet-ter than I can tell you.  Jo-ey got the ap-ples but a bad fall, and when he went to get up he found that he could not stand and that one an-kle hurt him se-vere-ly.

How long he would have staid there I can not tell, had not the men in the field grown hun-gry and sent one of their num-ber to see what had be-come of their lunch.

The mes-sen-ger found Jo-ey, and picked him up and car-ried him home.  Then, com-ing back, he took the bas-ket and all the ap-ples that lay a-bout, and went back to the field and the men ate them all for lunch-eon.

And so Jo-ey not on-ly got no ap-ples but had to lie in bed for a week be-fore his an-kle got well e-nough for him to run a-bout a-gain.

[Illustration:  “Oh, I say! and pippins too!!”
    “I’ll help myself to some of these, see if I don’t Mister Notice.” 
        Joey helps himself to more than he intended.]

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