"THEIR VOICES RANG OUT LUSTILY" 73

"ALL WENT WELL UNTIL WE REACHED AN ALLEY CROSSING" 81

"GOOD-BYE! OLD FELLOW!" 103




THE STORY OF DAGO.

CHAPTER I.

THIS IS THE STORY THAT DAGO TOLD TO THE MIRROR-MONKEY ON MONDAY.


Here I am at last, Ring-tail! The boys have gone to school, thank
fortune, and little Elsie has been taken to kindergarten. Everybody in
the house thinks that I am safe up-stairs in the little prison of a
room that they made for me in the attic. I suppose they never thought
how easy it would be for me to swing out of the open window and climb
down the lightning-rod. Wouldn't Miss Patricia be surprised if she
knew that I am down here now in the parlour, talking to you, and
sitting up here among all these costly, breakable things!

I have been wanting to get back into this room ever since that first
morning that I slipped in and found you sitting here in the
looking-glass, but the door has been shut every time that I have tried
to come in. Do you remember that morning? You were the first ring-tail
monkey that I had seen since I left the Zoo, and you looked so much