what you please with Mr. Stubbs, as you call him. I
expected to lose half the monkeys in that cage, and you have brought
back every one. That monkey shall be yours, and you may put him in the
cage whenever you want to, or take him with you, just as you choose, for
he belongs entirely to you."

Toby's joy knew no bounds; he put his arm around the monkey's neck, and
the monkey clung firmly to him, until even Job Lord was touched at the
evidence of affection between the two.

While the wagon was being repaired Toby and the monkey stood
hand-in-hand watching the work go on, while those in the cage scolded
and raved because they had been induced to return to captivity. After a
while the old monkey seated himself on Toby's arm and cuddled close up
to him, uttering now and then a contented sort of a little squeak as the
boy talked to him.

That night Mr. Stubbs slept in Toby's arms, in the band wagon, and both
boy and monkey appeared very well contented with their lot, which a
short time previous had seemed so hard.

When Toby awakened to his second day's work with the circus his monkey
friend was seated by his side, gravely exploring his pockets, and all
the boy's treasures were being spread out on the floor of the wagon by
his side. Toby remonstrated with him on this breach of confidence, but
Mr. Stubbs was more in the mood for sport than for grave conversation,
and the more Toby talked the more mischievous did he become, until at
length the boy gathered up his little store of treasures, took the
monkey by the paw, and walked him toward the cage from which he had
escaped on the previous night.

"Now, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, speaking in an injured tone, "you must go
in here and stay till I have got more time to fool with you."

He opened the door of the cage, but the monkey struggled as well as he
was able, and Toby was obliged to exert all his strength to put him in.

When once the door was fastened upon him Toby tried to impress upon his
monkey friend's mind the importance of being more sedate, and he was
convinced that the words had sunk deep into Mr. Stubbs's heart, for, by
the time he had concluded, the old monkey was seated in the corner of
the cage, looking up from under his shaggy eyebrows in the most
reproachful manner possible.

Toby felt sorry that he had spoken so harshly, and was about to make
amends for his severity, when Mr. Lord's gruff voice recalled him to the
fact that his time was not his own, an