happened to look up in the tree, and he saw where a branch had been
broken off, leaving a sharp point.

"Ha! I have it!" he cried.

He broke off the branch, and with the sharp point he soon had torn a
hole in the outer husk of the cocoanut. He pulled the round nut out.

"I have it!" he chattered.

"Yes, but it isn't good to eat yet," said Bumpo. "How are you going to
open the rest of it?"

Mappo did not know. Once more he tried to bite a hole, but he could not.
All of a sudden the nut slipped from his paws, and fell down toward the
ground.

"Oh!" cried Mappo, and he started to climb down after the nut. "My
cocoanut is lost!"

"Look out for the tiger!" cried Jacko. "Look out, Mappo!"




CHAPTER II

MAPPO PLAYS A TRICK