"
Then Toby lay right down on the ground and cried so hard that the
monkey acted as if it were frightened, and tried to turn the boy's
face over, and finally leaned down and licked Toby's ear.
This little act, which seemed so much like a kiss, caused Toby
to feel no small amount of comfort, and he sat up again, took the
monkey in his arms, and began seriously to discuss some definite
plan of action.
"It won't do to keep on the way we've been goin', Mr. Stubbs," said
Toby, as he looked full in his pet's face -- and the old monkey sat
as still and looked as grave as it was possible for him to look
and sit -- "for we must be going into the woods deeper. Let's start
off this way" -- and Toby pointed at right angles with the course
they had been pursuing -- "an' keep right on that way till we come
to something, or till we drop right down an' die."
It is fair to presume that the old monkey agreed to Toby's plan;
for although he said nothing in favor of it, he certainly made no
objections to it, which to Toby was the same as if his companion
had assented to it in the plainest English.
Both the bundles and the monkey were rather a heavy load for a
small boy like Toby to carry; but he clung manfully to them, walked
resolutely on, without looking to the right or to the left, glad
when the old monkey would take a run among the trees, for then he
would be relieved of his weight, and glad when he returned, for
then he had his company, and that repaid him for any labor which
he might have to perform.
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