Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Summer of the Monkeys 2
In this chapter, there was a word i didn't understand so i looked it up. The word was corncrib. A corncrib is a type of house or shed to store and dry corn. There was a reward for the monkeys. The circus was paying $2 per monkey. There was a special monkey that was worth $100. Jay Berry sets traps for the them. The first trap was almost like a bear trap but with padding so it wouldn't hurt the monkey's feet and legs. The special monkey outwitted Jay by reaching over the trap to get the bait instead of stepping in the trap. The second trap was a mouse trap, but again, the monkey figured out how to get the food without getting caught. Jay felt embarrassed that he got out-smarted by a monkey. When Jay went to his grandfather's store, his grandfather gave him a net with rings to open and cloth the net. Jay decided to test the net out on his family's gander. Once he caught it, he tried to put it back but the gander was caught in the net. Afet he got freed by Mother and Daisy, he flew away and they thought he would never return. After dinner that night, Jay and his father went and dug a hole where the monkeys were so Jay could hind in it and catch them.
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The part about the gander made me laugh. Can you just imagine us trying that on one of our chickens? Or perhaps one of the geese we see here? That would need to be a pretty large net made of some strong string to keep from breaking. What did you think of Daisy's reaction to her brother's foiled plans? She strikes me as kind of a tattle tale and a whiner/worrier.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that there is a huge difference in reward for the monkey all but one will fetch $2 apiece, but one in particular is worth $100. With the estimate being 30 monkeys, that is roughly $60 for the batch of monkeys, except for this one. Seems a little odd to me that there is such a huge difference in reward money.
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