Once a sailor came to
South America. He had a lot of red woollen caps with him. He was going to sell
them there. On his way to the nearest town he had to go through a forest in
which there were a lot of monkeys in the trees.
At noon, when the sun was shining brightly in the sky, the sailor lay down on
the grass to rest under a large tree. He took one of the caps out of his bag
and put it on his head and almost immediately he fell asleep.
When he woke up he found that all the caps had disappeared. Suddenly he heard
some strange noise over his head. He looked up and saw the trees full of
monkeys and each monkey was wearing a red woollen cap! They had stolen all his
red caps! The sailor began to shout and throw stones at them but the monkeys
weren't going to give the red caps back. They were very pleased with
themselves.The sailor got very
angry with the monkeys. He took off the cap which he had put on before going to
sleep and threw it angrily on the ground: "If you keep my caps and don't
want to give them back to me, you may take this one too!"
At the same moment all the monkeys took off the red caps and threw them on the
ground.
The sailor took the caps, put them into the bag and went away.
Where did a sailor come?
Why did he have a lot of red woollen caps with him?
What did he have to go through on his way to the nearest town?
Who had stolen all his red caps?
When did all the monkeys take off the red caps and throw them on the ground?