wn upon the hard road.

The monkeys, thus suddenly released from confinement, had scampered off
in every direction, and by a singular chance Toby's aged friend started
for the woods in such a direction as to bring him directly before the
boy's insensible form. The monkey, on coming up to Toby, stopped, urged
by the well known curiosity of its race, and began to examine the boy's
person carefully, prying into pockets and trying to open the boy's half
closed eyelids. Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud bank and
was only stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises.
The attentions bestowed upon him by the monkey served the purpose of
bringing him to his senses; and, after he had looked around him in the
gray light of the coming morning, it would have taken far more of a
philosopher than Old Ben was to persuade the boy that monkeys did not
possess reasoning faculties.

The monkey was busy at Toby's ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys will
do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of its face was as
grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed
sorrow at his fall, and he imagined that the attentions which were
bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been
injured or not.

"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as
he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any; but I would
like to know how I got way over here."

It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little
friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face
expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again--or at least
that was how the boy interpreted the look.

By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one
team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the
purpose of rendering aid. As Toby saw them coming he also saw a number
of small forms, looking something like diminutive men, hurrying past
him, and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged
monkey was at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the
other occupants of the cage escaping to the woods.

"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, pointing toward the
fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods! What shall we do?"

The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much
as it did the boy. He sprang to his feet, chattering in the most