44 Three Young Crusoe s 



As the path seemed to stop here, the boys thought 

 they had better go back. WiUiam had not forgot- 

 ten about the punk, and he found plenty of it in an 

 old hollow log about halfway down the mountain. 

 He also remembered that the negroes in Virginia 

 used the big, black brackets on locust trees for keep- 

 ing fire over night, so he collected several that looked 

 like them and carried them along with him to the 

 house. 



When they passed the monkeys again, they were 

 down on the ground and the pigs had gone away. 

 "I wonder if Edna would like to have a little pet 

 monkev .^ " said Henry. 



"You mean, another one," said William. 



After they had told Edna all about their trip and 

 had presented the coffee berries, which she w^as de- 

 lighted to get, they asked her if she would like to 

 have a pet monkey. "Yes," she said, "tor Snow- 

 ball. I think it would be too cute for anything to 

 see them playing together. How are you going to 

 catch itr " 



This was rather a poser tor the boys, who had not 

 developed any plan, but William thought it ought 

 to be easy to trap one in some way. Finally, Hen- 

 ry said, "Did you ever hear oi catching monkeys 

 with sugar?" 



