item: #1 of 11
          id: 13980
      author: Barnum, Richard
       title: Mappo, the Merry Monkey: His Many Adventures
        date: None
       words: 24050
      flesch: 97
     summary: But they did not, and there was poor Mappo on the ground right in front of the bad tiger. The net, with poor Mappo in it, was dragged up close to the crate, and a door in the crate was opened.
    keywords: cage; circus; cocoanut; jungle; man; mappo; monkey; thought; tiger; tree; tum
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 17429
      author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
       title: The Story of Dago
        date: None
       words: 19444
      flesch: 89
     summary: The boys have gone to school, thank fortune, and little Elsie has been taken to kindergarten. When they talked, it was always of the same thing: the children she had left at home,--Stuart and Phil and little Elsie.
    keywords: aunt; away; boys; children; dago; day; doctor; elsie; home; matches; miss; monkey; patricia; phil; room; stuart; time
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 18626
      author: Bailey, Arthur Scott
       title: The Tale of Major Monkey
        date: None
       words: 14862
      flesch: 95
     summary: Major Monkey inquired, pricking up his ears. Old Mr. Crow had talked so much about his old friend Major Monkey and the Major's gold-braided uniform that people simply couldn't wait to see the stranger and his fine clothes.
    keywords: army; crow; green; jolly; major; monkey; robin; tree
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 21049
      author: Garis, Howard Roger
       title: The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection
        date: None
       words: 49093
      flesch: 96
     summary: Teddy Martin jumped up so suddenly from the bank of the brook, where he was loading his ship with what he called swords, guns and gunpowder, that he tipped the vessel over and the whole cargo was spilled into the water. A moment later Teddy Martin came pushing his way through the crowd now in the bakery. CHAPTER XI TOP ACTS STRANGELY Mr. Martin, the father of the Curlytops, Mr. Capper, the baker, and the crowd of persons in the shop looked at Teddy and his friend, Jimmy Norton, as the two boys hurried into the place.
    keywords: circus; curlytops; dog; dogs; house; jack; janet; little; man; martin; monkey; mother; mrs; pets; skyrocket; teddy; tip; toby; tricks; trouble; uncle
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 26618
      author: Leslie, Madeline
       title: Minnie's Pet Monkey
        date: None
       words: 10179
      flesch: 81
     summary: Don't you know any stories of good monkeys, father? I don't recollect any at this moment, my dear; but I will see whether I can find any for you. changed to pet monkey.
    keywords: day; fellow; good; jacko; kees; lee; master; minnie; monkey; mrs; pet; time
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 29254
      author: Drummond, Henry
       title: The Monkey That Would Not Kill
        date: None
       words: 10903
      flesch: 81
     summary: There being no special mention in these volumes of monkeys on tour, Donald declined to pay a cent, and the conductor departed, vowing he would put Gum out of the train at the next station. Tricky was not hanged, he was only hanging; and, as everybody knows, monkeys rather like hanging.
    keywords: day; donald; gum; house; man; moment; monkey; nugget; rope; round; shepherd; ship; tricky
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 31486
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Monkey's Frolic: A Humorous Tale, in Verse
        date: None
       words: 1363
      flesch: 88
     summary: Cat_ thought as bad; A knife made of ivory, in use to cut paper, With which Barber _Pug_ now proceeded to scrape her. Pug_ could not find either razor or knife, So _Puss_ ran no hazard of losing her life;-- Yet razor or knife though they could not be had, _
    keywords: cat; illustration; monkey; pug; puss
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 32334
      author: Garis, Howard Roger
       title: Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail (The Funny Monkey Boys)
        date: None
       words: 42024
      flesch: 96
     summary: And, surely enough, just as Jacko was pretending to turn around a curve in a make-believe auto and run over a milk bottle, and the crowd was laughing and clapping and yelling like anything, Uncle Wiggily saw the monkey and cried out: Why, if there isn't Jacko Kinkytail! [Illustration: Bed Time Stories Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail.
    keywords: bear; boy; boys; brother; fox; green; home; house; jacko; jumpo; kinkytail; mamma; monkey; paper; red; right; school; thought; time; uncle; wiggily; woods
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 33421
      author: Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch)
       title: The Speech of Monkeys
        date: None
       words: 51223
      flesch: 71
     summary: In this opinion, which I reached from the study of other sounds and the types of skull to which they belonged, I am not alone: Mr. Paul Du Chaillu, Mr. E. J. Glave, and others who have seen both of these apes in their native habitat, agree with me on this point. The children aided me in the experiment by getting him to talk for food, bark at his image in the mirror, and by various other ways they induced him to other sounds in the presence of the phonograph.
    keywords: act; author; cage; chapter; dog; expression; fact; food; form; glass; hand; human; kind; language; life; little; man; manner; means; mind; monkeys; nellie; new; number; phonograph; point; reason; record; sidenote; sign; simian; sounds; species; speech; thought; time; use; voice; way; word; work
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 33629
      author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
       title: The Autobiography of a Monkey
        date: None
       words: 1590
      flesch: 87
     summary: The words and the ways of _their fathers_, And deliver my race from its ban, For man did not spring from the monkey, But monkey _descended from man!_ Then a girl who was youthful and silly Made love to me just for a lark, And came with an elegant turnout And took me to drive in the park.
    keywords: illustration; jungle; monkey; song
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 43906
      author: Bannerman, Helen
       title: The Story of the Teasing Monkey
        date: None
       words: 1186
      flesch: 87
     summary: [Illustration] The lion and lioness were just coming back, and when they heard the noise they came tearing home like the wind, and met little Jacko just in the mouth of the cave. the stones all came down on top of him, waking poor little Jacko, and scaring him nearly out of his wits.
    keywords: illustration
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