present a White Man ever had!"

Now they began to wonder and ask one another
what would be the best thing to give him.
And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!"
And another--"A hundred bunches of bananas!--
At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the
Land Where You Pay to Eat!"

But Chee-Chee told them that all these
things would be too heavy to carry so far and
would go bad before half was eaten.

"If you want to please him," he said, "give
him an animal. You may be sure he will be
kind to it. Give him some rare animal they
have not got in the menageries."

And the monkeys asked him, "What are
MENAGERIES?"

Then Chee-Chee explained to them that
menageries were places in the Land of the
White Men, where animals were put in cages
for people to come and look at. And the
monkeys were very shocked and said to one
another,

"These Men are like thoughtless young ones--stupid
and easily amused. Sh! It is a prison he means."