ONEY?"

Then Chee-Chee told them that in the Land of the White Men you could
get nothing without money; you could DO nothing without money--that it
was almost impossible to LIVE without money.

And some of them asked, "But can you not even eat and drink without
paying?"

But Chee-Chee shook his head. And then he told them that even he, when
he was with the organ-grinder, had been made to ask the children for
money.

And the Chief Chimpanzee turned to the Oldest Orangoutang and said,
"Cousin, surely these Men be strange creatures! Who would wish to live
in such a land? My gracious, how paltry!"

Then Chee-Chee said,

"When we were coming to you we had no boat to cross the sea in and no
money to buy food to eat on our journey. So a man lent us some
biscuits; and we said we would pay him when we came back. And we
borrowed a boat from a sailor; but it was broken on the rocks when we
reached the shores of Africa. Now the Doctor says he must go back and
get the sailor another boat--because the man was poor and his ship was
all he had."

And the monkeys were all silent for a while, sitting quite still upon
the ground and thinking hard.

At last the Biggest Baboon got up and said,

"I do not think we ought to let this good man leave our land till we
have given him a fine present to take with him, so that he may know we
are grateful for all that he has done for us."

And a little, tiny red monkey who was sitting up in a tree shouted down,

"I think that too!"

And then they all cried out, making a great noise, "Yes, yes. Let us
give him the finest present a White Man ever had!"

Now they began to wonder and ask one another what would be the best
thing to give him. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And
another--"A hundred bunches of bananas!-- At least he shall not have
to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!"

But Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to
carry so far and would go bad before half was eaten.

"If you want to please him," he said, "give him an animal. You may be
sure he will be kind to it. Give him some rare animal they have not
got in the menageries."

And the monkeys asked him, "What are MENAGERIES?"

Then Chee-Chee explained to them that menageries were places in the
Land of the White Men, where animals were put in cages for people to
come and look at. And the monkeys were very shocked and said to one
another,

"These Men are like tho