JACKO AND THE LITTLE MOUSE
"Jacko, will you go to the store for me?" called Mamma Kinkytail to the little red monkey one afternoon when he had come home from school.
"Yes, mother," he said. "What do you want?"
"Well, I need a dozen cocoanuts and two pounds of sugar, and some chocolate and some flour."
"Oh, you must be going to make a cake!" cried the monkey boy, tying two hard knots in his tail.
"You have guessed it," answered his mother. "Hurry now, and the cake will be baked in time for supper."
"Oh, but I wish Jumpo was here to go with me," said Jacko, as he started off.
"Because if I carry such nice things as cocoanuts and sugar and chocolate, a burglar may take them away from me on my way home."
"Nonsense!" said his mother. "Burglars don't want such things as that. Besides, it is daylight, and burglars don't come around then."