easy," Dick answered. "We'll just run down the meadow toward
the brook and he'll follow us all right. He'll give the Monkey a fine
ride, won't you, Carlo?"

"Bow wow!" barked the dog, which, I suppose, was his way of saying:
"Yes!"

"Well, I surely hope nothing serious will happen," thought the Monkey,
as he found himself being tied on the dog's fuzzy back. "I have had many
adventures, but never one like this. I hope nothing terrible happens!"

In another minute the boys tied the last knot. There sat the Monkey, off
his stick, on Carlo's back.

"Come on, now!" cried Dick, and he and Herbert started to run.

With a bark Carlo took after them, the Monkey bobbing backward and
forward on the dog's back.

"As long as they can't very well see me, I'll grab hold of the dog's
hair in my hands," said the Monkey. "In that way I can hold on better.
Some of the strings may break."

He clutched his hands tightly in the dog's hair. Carlo ran faster and
faster after the boys.

"Don't go so quick!" begged the Monkey.

"Bow wow! I have to!" barked Carlo.

"Oh, I know something dreadful will happen!" exclaimed the Monkey. "I
just know it!"

CHAPTER V

MONKEYSHINES

Over the green meadow, with the Monkey on his back, ran Carlo the dog.
In front of the dog raced Herbert and Dick, now and then looking back
and laughing. It was great fun for the boys to see the Monkey having a
ride on the dog's back. And, to tell the truth, Carlo and the Monkey
were enjoying it themselves.

"Do I hurt you, holding on this way?" asked the Monkey of Carlo,
grasping tightly the dog's woolly back. "Do I pull your hair any?"

"Oh, not much," Carlo barked in answer. "I don't mind a little pull
like that."

"You see I'm so afraid of falling off and breaking my tail, or something
like that," went on the Monkey.

"Well, you're tied on, so I don't believe you'll fall," replied the dog.
"Those boys are used to tying things. Once they tied Madeline's Candy
Rabbit on the end of a kite tail, and he nearly went to the moon, I
guess."

"Oh, yes, I heard about that," said the Monkey. "Only I heard it was a
star, not the moon."

And then he noticed that he was tied on rather tightly, and he felt
there was not much chance of his falling. So he did not hold so hard to
the dog's back, and Carlo was glad of this.

Herbert and Dick, looking back to see if Carlo was running after them
(which indeed he was) saw the Monkey bobbing to and fro on th