Dick Boldhero : or, A tale of adventures in South America (1845)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · Philadelphia : Sorin and Ball · leaf 45
a bound into the midst of thecongregation. Upon this, they all set up ashout, which echoed far and wide over thescene. I had become so interested in this specta-cle, that I had risen from my resting-place,and advanced so far as to be near the act-ors in this curious drama. One of themnow chanced to… … THE MONKEY ORATOR. 46 DICK BOLDHERO. my life have I been placed in a situation atonce so ludicrous and so appalling. A hun-dred monkeys now surrounded me; somemounting the trees over my head, and somewinding among the bushes at my feet; somehowling, and all grinning at me, and makingthe most…
Children's stories, American
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