The fire had been burning a few minutes, when Mrs. Brown heard a terrible scratching in the oven, and out jumped Billy as spry as ever.
He ran out of doors. He was not seen again until the next morning.
Then Mrs. Brown told Sammy that the monkey had made so much work for her, that she could not have him any longer.
Sammy saw that his mother was very much in earnest.
So he sold Billy to a pedler who came along the next day.
The pedler gave him fifty cents for Billy.
Sammy was sorry to let him go, but he wanted to please his mother.
M. M. H.
