All at once, however, he heard a voice saying:

"Well, you've come back, have you?"

The Monkey looked around, and there sat his friend Mr. Grasshopper, and
near him was Miss Cricket.

"Oh, I'm so glad to see you!" cried the Monkey. "I was looking for the
place I first met you--the place where I fell off the dog's back."

"It is right here," said the Grasshopper. "This is where I first noticed
you. And there is the hummock of grass you sat on."

Then the Monkey knew he was back at the place he wished to reach. He sat
down and talked with the Grasshopper and the Cricket, telling them of
his visit to Jack Hare's cave, and also how he had slept all night under
a leaf near Jack in the Pulpit.

"Hark!" suddenly called the Grasshopper.

"What's the matter?" asked the Monkey.

"I think you are going to get your wish," was the Grasshopper's answer.
"I hear boys talking and a dog barking. We had better be going, Miss
Cricket. Good-bye, Mr. Monkey on a Stick!"

"Good-bye," called the Cricket.

With that they hopped away. The Monkey listened, and, surely enough, he
heard the barking of a dog and the talking of two boys.