for several months in 1891, and during that time
their joint editorial chair was occupied by no other than Professor
Henry Drummond.

And now our readers will understand to whom they are indebted for the
quaint sayings and funny stories and Competitions betokening someone who
"understood" boys--and girls too. And they will be grateful to a certain
contributor who failed to send his copy in time for the monthly issue on
one occasion, and so forced the then Editor to sit down and write
"something." It was the first time he had ever tried to write fiction,
and as the story grew under his pen, he began to realise the joy of
creation. And so it was that, in spite of his playful deprecation of
"such nonsense" being printed, the adventures of "the Monkey that would
not kill" came to be told, and we know that we can do our old friends
and readers no greater kindness than to dedicate these chronicles to
them in permanent form, in memory of one to whom "Wee Willie" and his
bairns were ever a subject of affectionate interest.

ISHBEL ABERDEEN,
MARJORIE A. H. GORDON,
_Editors of_ "_Wee Willie Winkie_."

Government House, Ottawa,
_November, 1897_.

CONTENTS

I

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THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL 1

II

GUM 57

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WITH THE STONE IN HIS ARMS HE WALKED
CALMLY TOWARDS THE SHORE _Frontispiece_

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TRICKY UPSET EVERYTHING 5

NEXT MORNING TRICKY WAS STILL THERE 13

IT WAS ONLY TRICKY SHAKING THE SALT-WATER OFF 17

HE BEGAN WITH THE PARROT 21

THE SHEPHERD BOLTED LIKE WILDFIRE 25

ALL WAS READY 33

HE TOOK MONKEY AND STONE AND HEAVED THEM OVER
THE CLIFF 43

TRICKY HELD BACK THE BABY 55

THE MONKEY'S RESCUE 63

A MONKEY PERFORMING GYMNASTIC EXERCISES 71

BURIED HIS TEETH IN THE CONDUCTOR'S WRIST 77

THE NUGGET OF GOLD 85

POINTING A LOADED REVOLVER AT HIS HEAD 89

THE