Category: Short Stories

Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail (The Funny Monkey Boys)

Books intended for reading aloud to the Little Folk each night. Each volume contains 8 colored illustrations and 31 stories--one for each night in the month. Handsomely bound in cloth. Size 6-1/2 by 8-1/4.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

Books intended for reading aloud to the Little Folk each night. Each volume contains 8 colored illustrations and 31 stories--one for each night in the month. Handsomely bound in...

2. Chapter 2

"Good!" cried his brother. So they carefully watched the pudding, waiting for it to be cooked on one side. And, just as Jumpo got ready to turn it, there was a knocking on the d...

3. Chapter 3

"Hum!" exclaimed Jumpo. "This is strange. But I'll try again." So he tried once more, and, all this while, as he was reaching for the orange, he kept coming nearer and nearer to...

4. Chapter 4

It had rained quite hard in the night and when Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail, after they had gone to bed, suddenly woke up in the darkness and heard the drops pattering on the roof,...

5. Chapter 5

So Jumpo was sitting on a flat stone, looking at the chestnut burr and wondering if perhaps there might not be four brown, shining nuts inside, when, all at once, he heard a rus...

6. Chapter 6

So he twisted some of the shiny things on the steering wheel, and he tickled the thing-a-ma-bob and pushed the tittle-cum-tattle-cum and the auto went slower. But even then it w...

7. Chapter 7

Then the boy animals hurried and pulled up Jacko and the football and he was safe, and they had a lot more fun playing the game, and every one said that Jumpo was very smart to...

8. Chapter 8

So they all went up to her desk to get the paper, but Jacko Kinkytail, the red boy monkey, was a little late because he couldn't get his book strap fastened. And all there was l...

9. Chapter 9

Not a bit of it! Why, with the cow-catcher the engine just pushed the stone out of the way so that it fell over and pinched the fox on the tail, and then the engine went on fast...