"I have it!" he chattered.
"Yes, but it isn't good to eat yet," said Bumpo. "How are you going to open the rest of it?"
Mappo did not know. Once more he tried to bite a hole, but he could not. All of a sudden the nut slipped from his paws, and fell down toward the ground.
"Oh!" cried Mappo, and he started to climb down after the nut. "My cocoanut is lost!"
"Look out for the tiger!" cried Jacko. "Look out, Mappo!"
CHAPTER II
MAPPO PLAYS A TRICK
Mappo, who had started to climb down to the ground, to get the cocoanut he had lost, stopped short when he heard his brother Jacko cry out about the tiger.