He had paid no attention to his bundles when he lay down, and when
he awoke he was puzzled to make out what it was that was strewn
around the ground so thickly.
He had looked at it but a very short time when he saw that it was
what had been the lunch he had carried so far. After having had
the sad experience of losing his money he understood very readily
that the old monkey had taken the lunch while he slept, and had
amused himself by picking it apart into the smallest particles
possible, and then strewn them around on the ground where he now
saw them.
Toby looked at them in almost speechless surprise, and then he
turned to where the old monkey lay, apparently asleep; but as the
boy watched him intently he could see that the cunning animal was
really watching him out of one half closed eye.
"Now you have killed us, Mr. Stubbs," wailed Toby. "We never can
find our way out of here; an' now we hain't got anything to eat,
and by tomorrow we shall be starved to death. Oh dear! wasn't you
bad enough when you threw all the money away, so you had to go an'
do this just when we was in awful trouble?"
Mr. Stubbs now looked up as if he had just been awakened by Toby's
grief, looked around him leisurely as if to see what could be the
matter, and then, apparently seeing for the first time the crumbs
that were lying around on the ground, took up some and examined
them intently.
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