e dark.

"We put out every light when Mr. Mole comes," said Mrs. Hare.

"Why is that?" asked the Monkey.

"Because he has no eyes, and doesn't need to see," was the answer. "He
just feels and noses his way around. All darkness is the same to him."

"Dear me! Well, I like a little light," said the Monkey. "But I think
now, since I have been here quite a while, that I had better go back.
Herbert and Dick might be walking over the meadow, looking for me, for
they know which way Carlo ran, with me on his back, and they often find
things that are lost--those boys do."

"Oh, stay just a little longer," urged Mrs. Hare.

"And tell us another story!" begged Johnnie Hare.

"Well, I will," said the Monkey, and he did. He told about some of the
funny things that had happened in the toy store--things I have told you
children about in the other books. And the bunny boys and girls liked
the story told by the Monkey on a Stick very much indeed.

The Monkey enjoyed himself so much in the cave house of Mr. Jack Hare
that he stayed longer than he intended. It was along in the middle of
the afternoon before he came out, and as the Monkey and Mr. Hare reached
the outer opening of the burrow the rabbit gentleman knocked on the
ground three times with his hind feet.

"What's that for?" asked the Monkey.

"To turn off the lightning bugs," was the answer. "No use burning lights
when no one needs them. I'll turn them on if you call again."

"Thank you, I shall be glad to pay you another visit," said the Monkey.
"But just now I feel that I must get back to where you first saw me. I
want to ask the Grasshopper or Miss Cricket if they have seen the boys
or the dog."

"Well, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll not go back with you," said the
Rabbit. "I am not fond of dogs, and they are altogether too fond of me.
Good-bye!"

Then he hopped away, waving his paw at the Monkey, and the Monkey jumped
through the grass to the place where he had fallen from the dog's back.

There he found Mr. Grasshopper and Miss Cricket. They were eating some
of the green things that grew all around them.

"Have you seen anything of my friends?" asked the Monkey, as he hopped
up and sat on the hummock of grass where he had been resting after
cutting up his Monkeyshines.

"No, neither the boys nor the dog have been here," said the Grasshopper.

"But I heard a dog barking," said Miss Cricket. "It may have been the
Carlo you spoke about."

"And I heard s