A tempting turnip's silver skin Drew a base hog through thick and thin: Bought with a stag's delicious haunch, The mercenary wolf was stanch: The convert fox grew warm and hearty, A pullet gained him to the party; 100 The golden pippin in his fist, A chattering monkey joined the list.

The monkey thought his grin and chatter, Might ask a nut or some such matter.

[Coll.]; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan^, satyr^, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop^, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c (jester) 844; pantomimist &c (actor)

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c (jester) 844; pantomimist &c (actor)

Its home, like the monkey family, seems to be on the trees.

At sundown we halted under a lofty mountain, the highest in the district, called "Lynchie a Cheny," or the Monkey's Mountain.

"I knew something would happen," declared that worthy, as he picked up a monkey wrench, the only weapon at hand, and started off for the woods.

I'll take care of this one," cried Jake, rushing into the mêlée, whirling his monkey wrench in a formidable manner.

A clever blow from Roy laid the cudgel wielder low, and the other man, not liking the look of Jake's monkey wrench, capitulated by taking to his heels.

See, he has a monkey wrench in his hand, too," exclaimed Bess.

How comes it you have that monkey wrench in your hands if you weren't tampering with the machinery?" Jimsy spoke in a voice that fairly bubbled over with indignation.

I happened to be near that machine with a monkey wrench and in some way was careless enough to let it put that plug out of business.

One day a turtle, whose name was Ca Boo-Ug, and a monkey, Ca Matsin, met on the shore of a pond.

The story of "The Monkey and the Turtle" is clearly modified from a Spanish source.

" How Man Turned into a Monkey Before the world was made, the monkey looked like man, and was called manobo, and was actually human.

" How Man Turned into a Monkey Before the world was made, the monkey looked like man, and was called manobo, and was actually human.

But after the world and people were made, the monkey took its present form.

The ladle had turned into a tail, and presently Lumabat's brother became a monkey.

He would in vain have lifted his Lilliputian arm to Heaven, people would have laughed at his monkey-tricks.

He is like "a monkey-preacher" to the other.

In Rome, for example, a parricide, or the murderer of any near relation, was thrown into deep water, tied up in a sack together with a dog, a cock, a viper, and a monkey, which were probably symbols of his wickedness, and must have given him a lively time before death supervened.

The monkey farm.

A monkey mixup.

The white monkey.