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Show Hilary GmharaAl Bonner MONKEY GAMES t Now the keeper knew that the monkeys mon-keys needed exercise. lie used to plan different things tor them to play, and he would play with them. There was the delightful game of knocking off the keeper's hat That w?.snt a game which had much exercise in it, but it was a lovely game just the same. They would play that, first one monkey mon-key nnd then the other. A Lovely Game. T n e k e e,p e r would staud by the cage with the door open, and one of the monkeys would jump down from his swing and would push off the keeper's hat Then the people standing around and the children would all shriek with delight, and laugh for all they were worth. Of course the keeper entered into the fun, or he wouldn't have suggested sug-gested the game in I lie first place, and he. did suggest it and stay around to piny it again and again. Then the children watched the monkeys mon-keys as they did all sorts of tricks on their bars and they watched the keeper keep-er as he took out his pet monkey, the one who had been longest in the zoo. and held him on his shoulder. The monkey put his head down and looked at the keeper out of his bright little eyes, as though to say : "Oh, keeper, dear, I love you." And the keeper stroked the monkey and said : "I wouldn't exchange you, my little monkey, for any of these boys and girls around hele.,' That made all the boys and girls laugh hard for Oiey thought they were far nicer than even the nicest monkey, and they were sure their mothers and fathers thought so, too, even though there were times when they weren't quite so devoted as at other times. But' the keeper hadn't any little boys and girls and be did have his pet monkey. "Ah, monkey, we must think of some good games, some new games, you and I." The monkey jumped back in the cage and did a fine trick, hanging by his tail, to ask the keeper in monkey talk what he thought of that "Fine, splendid," siiid the keeper, "but I must think of something for you two monkeys here, you and your little pal. "You both need to play a game that has more exercise in it. "Now, I have the very thing. I have something in my office." So be put a ball and bat into their cage. ' One monkey was black and gray with white ears and eyebrows, and eyelashes, and the other was without the touches of white. They were both very devoted monkeys mon-keys and used to sit with their tails entwined or one tail around the other's waist. How delighted they were when the keeper handed them the bat. and the ball. - They got off their swing where they had been sitting and said: "Just what we need exercise." And if you think that boys and girls are the only ones who know how to play ball you should have seen those two monkeys playing ball. One held the bat and the other , threw the ball. They hit it back and forth, they caught it and they chased around their cage after it. What a game they had 1 ' And how happy it made the keeper to see them. After they had played a good long time they stopped and rested and shock the dust off t h e m s e I es, for monkeys are real !y clean. And they had afternoon tea, or rather they had an afternoon banana nnffer 1 1 in place of toasi or cake, and in He Took 0ut HiE place of the tea Pet Monkey, to drink, they had some wter. "Well," said the first monkey, "e had our exercise all right." "We did," agreed the second monkey, mon-key, "and what a fine game ball playing play-ing is." "It's a regular game, that's what It Is," said the first monkey, as he once more sat beside the second monkey with his tail around the other's waist |