And now our readers will understand to whom they are indebted for the quaint sayings and funny stories and Competitions betokening someone who "understood" boys—and girls too. And they will be grateful to a certain contributor who failed to send his copy in time for the monthly issue on one occasion, and so forced the then Editor to sit down and write "something." It was the first time he had ever tried to write fiction, and as the story grew under his pen, he began to realise the joy of creation. And so it was that, in spite of his playful deprecation of "such nonsense" being printed, the adventures of "the Monkey that would not kill" came to be told, and we know that we can do our old friends and readers no greater kindness than to dedicate these chronicles to them in permanent form, in memory of one to whom "Wee Willie" and his bairns were ever a subject of affectionate interest.

ISHBEL ABERDEEN,
MARJORIE A. H. GORDON,
Editors of "Wee Willie Winkie."

Government House, Ottawa,
November, 1897.

CONTENTS

I
PAGE
THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL[1]
II
GUM[57]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WITH THE STONE IN HIS ARMS HE WALKED CALMLY
TOWARDS THE SHORE		[Frontispiece]
PAGE
TRICKY UPSET EVERYTHING[5]
NEXT MORNING TRICKY WAS STILL THERE[13]
IT WAS ONLY TRICKY SHAKING THE SALT-WATER OFF[17]
HE BEGAN WITH THE PARROT[21]
THE SHEPHERD BOLTED LIKE WILDFIRE[25]
ALL WAS READY[33]
HE TOOK MONKEY AND STONE AND HEAVED THEM OVER THE CLIFF[43]
TRICKY HELD BACK THE BABY[55]
THE MONKEY'S RESCUE[63]
A MONKEY PERFORMING GYMNASTIC EXERCISES[71]
BURIED HIS TEETH IN THE CONDUCTOR'S WRIST[77]
THE NUGGET OF GOLD[85]
POINTING A LOADED REVOLVER AT HIS HEAD[89]
THE CAN OF GUNPOWDER TIED TO HIS TAIL[103]
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF ALL IS GUM[113]