Please Bring Your Umbrella Inside When it Rains," and on
another he played "May I Have Some of Your Ice Cream Cone if I Give You a
Kiss?" And on the third hand organ the monkey was playing the tune "Come
Out Into the Hammock and See Who'll Fall Out First," and another tune was
"Please Don't Let that Big Black Bug Tickle Me," and on the organ that he
twisted with his tail the monkey ground out the song "Come On Inside the
Motorboat and Have a Nice, Cool Swim."

"My, how do you do it?" asked the rabbit of the monkey. "You must be very
musical."

"Oh, it comes natural to me," said the monkey, not a bit proud like.

"But where did you get so many organs?"

"Oh, I saved up my pennies for them," said the monkey. "You see, it was
this way. I used to work for a man who had a hand organ, and he used to
take me around with him to climb up on the porches, and in the
second-story windows to get the pennies from the children. Well, I always
loved music, and I wanted the man to let me play his organ, but he never
would. So I made up my mind I would save up all my pennies and some day
buy an organ for myself.

"Well, I did that, for you know often when I used to go around to collect
pennies for the man, some children would give me a few for myself. Finally
I got rich and I didn't work for the man any longer, and I had enough to
buy five hand organs, for I can play five at once. Then I came here, and
built this shingle house and every day I amuse myself by playing tunes,
and I never have to climb up the rainwater pipe to get money. Oh, it is a
happy life," and the monkey felt so funny that he hung by his tail from a
tree branch, and made faces at Uncle Wiggily--just in fun, you understand.

Uncle Wiggily was very glad he had met the monkey, and he listened to the
music, and the monkey even let the rabbit play one tune for himself, and
it was called, "When You Wiggle Your Wiggily Ears Wiggle Them Good and
Hard."

And then, all of a sudden, just as that tune was finished, there was a
terrible noise in the bushes.

"My goodness! What's that?" cried the monkey as he hopped up on top of one
of his hand organs and curled his tail around the handle.

"It sounds like a bear!" said the rabbit. "But don't worry. I'll do just
as the cricket did to the alligator and make him laugh so that he won't
hurt us."

"Good!" cried the monkey. And then the noise became louder and out from
the bushes popped a big animal. But it was an elephant ins