Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
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"MAKE BELIEVE STORIES" is a fascinating line of books Laura Lee Hope that has various toys coming to life "when nobody is looking" and she puts them through a series of adventures as interesting as can possibly be imagined.
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Over the green meadow, with the Monkey on his back, ran Carlo the dog. In front of the dog raced Herbert and Dick, now and then looking back and laughing. It was great fun for the boys to see the Monkey having a ride on the dog's back. And, to tell the truth, Carlo and the Monkey were enjoying it themselves.
"Do I hurt you, holding on this way?" asked the Monkey of Carlo, grasping tightly the dog's woolly back. "Do I pull your hair any?"
"Oh, not much," Carlo barked in answer. "I don't mind a little pull like that."
"You see I'm so afraid of falling off and breaking my tail, or something like that," went on the Monkey.
"Well, you're tied on, so I don't believe you'll fall," replied the dog. "Those boys are used to tying things. Once they tied Madeline's Candy Rabbit on the end of a kite tail, and he nearly went to the moon, I guess."
