Summer Of The Monkeys

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his old blue tick hound, into helping him with his monkey trouble.
At the time, the Lee family was living in a brand-new country that had just been opened up for settlement. They had moved there when Jay Berry was only two years old. He and his twin sister, Daisy, were born in Oklahoma City. He was born healthy, but Daisy came out with here right leg all twisted. She was going to be a cripple. The farm they lived on was called Cherokee Nation. It lay in a strip from the foothills of the Ozark Mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma. That was probably the last place in the world that anyone would expect to find a bunch of monkeys.
During breakfast one morning, the Lee family's milk cow, Sally Gooden, ran off. Jay Berry was sent out to look for her. He found the family's milk cow and the monkeys deep in the bottoms. He had never seen a monkey anywhere expect in a book. He had no explanation, nor did his father, for the monkeys' being. His grandpa and ...

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teeth all padded so it wouldn't hurt. Jay Berry tried it out the next morning and used apples as bait. The monkeys were about to fall for the trap, but Jimbo came along and got the apples while avoiding the traps. He knew there were traps because he had been sitting in the trees the whole time. He was like their leader.
Jay Berry was very disappointed and went to get a drink at a spring. When he went back to get his stuff, it was gone. He heard the Jimbo chattering and looked up. The monkey was jumping up and down with Jay Berry's sack in his hand. There was nothing he could do so he went home and ate dinner. Then he went back to his grandpa's store for more advice.
His grandpa gave him ...

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