to them, walked resolutely on,
without looking to the right or to the left, glad when the old monkey
would take a run among the trees, for then he would be relieved of his
weight, and glad when he returned, for then he had his company, and that
repaid him for any labor which he might have to perform.

Toby was in a hard plight as it was; but without the old monkey for a
companion he would have thought his condition was a hundred times worse,
and would hardly have had the courage to go on as he was going.

On and on he walked, until it seemed to him that he could really go no
farther, and yet he could see no signs which indicated the end of the
woods, and at last he sunk upon the ground, too tired to walk another
step, saying to the monkey--who was looking as if he would like to know
the reason of this pause--"It's no use, Mr. Stubbs, I've got to sit down
here an' rest awhile, anyhow; besides, I'm awfully hungry."

Then Toby commenced to eat his dinner, and to give the monkey his,
until the thought came to him that he neither had any water nor did he
know where to find it, and then, of course, he immediately became so
thirsty that it was impossible for him to eat any more.

"We can't stand this," moaned Toby to the monkey; "we've got to have
something to drink, or else we can't eat all these sweet things, an' I'm
so tired that I can't go any farther. Don't let's eat dinner now, but
let's stay here an' rest, an' then we can keep on an' look for water."

Toby's resting spell was a long one, for as soon as he stretched himself
out on the ground he was asleep from actual exhaustion, and did not
awaken until the sun was just setting, and then he saw that, hard as his
troubles had been before, they were about to become, or in fact had
become, worse.

He had paid no attention to his bundles when he lay down, and when he
awoke he was puzzled to make out what it was that was strewn around the
ground so thickly.

He had looked at it but a very short time when he saw that it was what
had been the lunch he had carried so far. After having had the sad
experience of losing his money he understood very readily that the old
monkey had taken the lunch while he slept, and had amused himself by
picking it apart into the smallest particles possible, and then strewn
them around on the ground where he now saw them.

Toby looked at them in almost speechless surprise, and then he turned to
where the old monkey lay, apparently asleep; b