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Title: The Monkey That Would Not Kill

Author: Henry Drummond

Illustrator: Louis Wain

Release Date: June 27, 2009 [EBook #29254]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL

by Henry Drummond]

THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL

[Illustration: WITH THE STONE IN HIS ARMS HE WALKED CALMLY
TOWARDS THE SHORE]

THE MONKEY
THAT WOULD NOT KILL

BY
HENRY DRUMMOND

With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations

BY
LOUIS WAIN

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1915

_Copyright, 1897,_
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

PREFACE

A few years ago, the readers of "Wee Willie Winkie" detected a new vein
running through the Editorial Notes and announcements which prefaced the
monthly collection of juvenile literary efforts, which made up their
little Magazine.

There was an originality and a humour which they had not noticed before,
and Competitions were suggested to them of a type for a repetition of
which they clamoured.

And then presently a new serial story began, and the hairbreadth escapes
of that immortal Monkey which it recorded were breathlessly followed by
Wee Willie Winkie's army of bairns all over the world; and when it was
concluded, so numerous were the entreaties for a sequel, that compulsion
had to be resorted to in order to secure the revelation of the later
life of the hero under a new name.

And now at last the Editors who were responsible for the periodical
referred to have to make a confession.

Once upon a time they both, mother and daughter, forsook their office
and went away to Canada