The Monkey is the nearest like to us of all the animals that live. He will try to do every thing he sees us do. I once knew a monkey who was sick, and we wished to give him a little medicine, but Jock would not touch it; so one day when he was looking at us we mixed some sugar and water in a glass, and drank it, and then mixed in the same glass some medicine and water, and set it aside, knowing that he would drink it if we went out and left him alone; and sure enough he did get at the glass and emptied it, and soon found out he had taken a good doze of physic. Pug got well in a short time, without any doctor, and would often amuse us by drinking a glass of wine. He is talking with the Kan-ga-roo. Your good health sir. Tell me if you please, in what part of the world you live, what you eat, and why you are sitting on your hind legs half the time? If you ever come to New-Holland, answers the Kangaroo, you can always see me, my hind legs are twice as long as my fore legs, and I eat grain and grass for dinner. [Illustration: Kangaroo] [Illustration: Elk] We will now talk a little of the Elk. He is a kind of deer without horns, and lives in cold countries. His flesh is good food, and his skin will make leather. But as you perhaps will never see one alive, I will introduce you to the dirtiest and most lazy creature living, I mean the Hog. He always wants to be eating and drinking; he loves to wallow in the mire, and to grunt away his time in rooting up the earth. A man once took a pig into his house, taught him the letters, and afterwards showed him as a Learned Pig, from doing which he got a great deal of money. I hope you will become a learned man and then you will be rich enough. When you have read all the Concord Picture Books and can tell the names of the kings of England, we will have something else for you. [Illustration: Hog] Good bye. [Back cover: Ibex and Badger] * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Pg 2 Hyphen kept in "I-bex" as illustrative of pronunciation. Pg 12 Hyphens kept in "Kan-ga-roo" as illustrative of pronunciation. Archaic spelling preserved as printed. End of Project Gutenberg's The Two Goats and the Sick Monkey, by Anonymous