ops
ready for Skyrocket or Top to jump through, as the dogs seemed to like
that trick. Snuff and Turnover were playing together near by, and when
Turnover chased Snuff, the Persian cat leaped right through a paper hoop.

"Oh, if we could only make him do that for the circus!" Janet cried. "It
would be great!"

"We'll try," Teddy had said. And, after many trials, they did succeed in
getting Snuff to leap through a paper hoop. It was a fine trick.

But now the Curlytops planned to teach Jack, their monkey, some tricks in
addition to a few that he had learned from Uncle Toby or the sailor. So
Jack was brought out from his cage and given a banana, fruit of which he
was very fond.

"What trick shall we teach him?" asked Janet.

"I think a jumping trick would be good," Teddy answered. "I'll go and get
some boxes, and we'll make a high thing, like a tower, of them. We'll get
Jack up on top, and have him jump down. That will be great, won't it?"

"Fine," agreed Janet. "I'll help you get the boxes."

The Curlytops left their monkey sitting on a bench in the yard while they
went back into the barn after the boxes. Jack was peacefully eating his
banana when Teddy and Janet left him. But when the children came out with
the boxes, it having taken longer to find them than they had thought,
Jack was not to be seen.

"Oh, Jack is gone!" cried Janet, looking around.

"Maybe he's up in a tree," suggested Teddy. "Here, Jack! Jack!" he
called.

But there was no chattering answer, and the monkey was not to be found.
He had not gone back into the barn, where the other pets were, and
Trouble, who was playing in the back yard, said Jack had not passed him.

"Where can he be?" asked Janet. She and Teddy were beginning to worry,
when Mrs. Johnson, into whose baby carriage Slider had once been put by
Baby William, called from across the street:

"Are you looking for your dog, children?"

"No'm. For our monkey," answered Teddy.

"Oh, maybe the hand-organ man has him," said Mrs. Johnson. "I saw an
Italian with an organ go into your yard a little while ago."

"Did he have a monkey with him?" asked Teddy.

"I don't much believe that he did. I saw the man go in, but I didn't
notice a monkey. But I remember now that when the organ man came out, he
had a monkey with him. Maybe it was yours."

"I'm sure it was!" cried Janet. "Oh, Ted! The hand-organ man has taken
Jack! He took Jack when we were in the barn!"

"I didn't hear any hand