or which he might have to perform.

Toby was in a hard plight as it was; but without the old monkey for a
companion he would have thought his condition was a hundred times worse,
and would hardly have had the courage to go on as he was going.

On and on he walked, until it seemed to him that he could really go no
farther, and yet he could see no signs which indicated the end of the
woods, and at last he sank upon the ground, too tired to walk another
step, saying to the monkey--who was looking as if he would like to know
the reason of this pause, "It's no use, Mr. Stubbs, I've got to sit down
here an' rest awhile anyhow; besides, I'm awfully hungry."

Then Toby commenced to eat his dinner, and to give the monkey his, until
the thought came to him that he neither had any water nor did he know
where to find it, and then, of course, he immediately became so thirsty
that it was impossible for him to eat any more.

"We can't stand this," moaned Toby to the monkey; "we've got to have
something to drink, or else we can't eat all these sweet things, an' I'm
so tired that I can't go any farther. Don't let's eat dinner now, but
let's stay here an' rest, an' then we can keep on an' look for water."

Toby's resting spell was a long one, for as soon as he stretched himself
out on the ground he was asleep from actual exhaustion, and did not
awaken until the sun was just setting, and then he saw that, hard as
his troubles had been before, they were about to become, or in fact had
become, worse.

He had paid no attention to his bundles when he lay down, and when he
awoke he was puzzled to make out what it was that was strewn around the
ground so thickly.

He had looked at it but a very short time when he saw that it was what
had been the lunch he had carried so far. After having had the sad
experience of losing his money he understood very readily that the old
monkey had taken the lunch while he slept, and had amused himself by
picking it apart into the smallest particles possible, and then strewn
them around on the ground where he now saw them.

Toby looked at them in almost speechless surprise, and then he turned to
where the old monkey lay, apparently asleep; but as the boy watched him
intently he could see that the cunning animal was really watching him
out of one half closed eye.

"Now you have killed us, Mr. Stubbs," wailed Toby. "We never can find
our way out of here; an' now we hain't got anything to eat, and by
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