One day, as Mappo was asleep in the woods, he was suddenly awakened by feeling himself caught by two hands, and a voice cried:
"Oh, I've caught a monkey. I'm going to take him home and keep him. Oh, a real, live monkey!"
Mappo opened his eyes, and he saw that a boy was holding him, and holding him so tightly that the little monkey could not get away.
"Well, I'm caught!" thought Mappo, but he was not very sorry.
CHAPTER XI
MAPPO AND THE ORGAN-MAN
Some monkeys, if they had been caught by a boy, in the woods, would have bit and scratched and fought to get away. But Mappo was both a merry monkey, and a good, kind one. So, when he saw that the boy was holding him tightly, Mappo made up his mind that it would not be nice to try to get away.
Besides, he liked boys, as well as girls, for so many of them had fed him peanuts in the circus. And I rather think that Mappo was getting tired of having run away, for he did not find these woods as nice as he thought he would.