필사)

Squeak! Squeak!

Peanut poked her head out from Annie’s pocket.

She seemed to be yelling at the monkey.

“Don’t worry, Peanut,” said Annie.

“He’s just a little monkey. He won’t hurt us.”

But suddenly the monkey grabbed a big red fruit hanging from the tree.

He hurled it at the canoe.

“Watch it!” shouted Jack.

The fruit fell into the water with a splash.

The monkey screeched even louder.

He grabbed another fruit.

“Don’t throw things at us!” shouted Annie.

But the monkey hurled the red fruit right at them.

Jack and Annie ducked again.

And the fruit splashed into the water.

“Stop that!” Annie shouted.

But the monkey only waved his arms and screeched again.

“Oh, brother,” said Jack.

“I don’t believe this.”

The monkey grabbed a third fruit and hurled it at Jack and Annie.

It landed inside the canoe with a thump.

Annie grabbed the fruit.

She stood up and threw it back at the monkey.

She missed. The canoe rocked.

Annie almost fell out.

The monkey screeched even louder.

“Go away!” Annie shouted.

“You’re the meanest thing in the world!”

The monkey stooped screeching.

He looked at Annie. The he swung away. Into the forest.

“I think I hurt his feelings,” said Annie.

“Who cares?” said Jack. “He shouldn’t throw things.”

“Uh-oh,” said Annie. “It’s raining now.”

“What?” Jack looked up.

A raindrop hit him in the eye.

“Oh, no. I don’t believe this,” Jack said.

“What’d you expect?” said Annie.

“It is the rain forest.”

A gust of wind blew the canoe.

Thunder rolled in the sky.

“A river’s a bad place to be in a storm,” said Jack.

“We have to get back to shore. Right now.”

“But how?” said Annie.

“We can’t wade or swim. The piranhas, the snake, and the crocodile will get us.”

Screeching split the air again.

“Oh, no,” said Jack. The


bratty


monkey was back.

This time, the monkey was pointing a long stick at the canoe.

Jack crouched down.

Was the monkey going to


hurl


the stick at them?

Like a


spear


?

Annie jumped up and faced the monkey.

“Watch it! He’s nuts,” said Jack.

But the monkey just stared at Annie.

And Annie just stared back at him

After a long moment, the monkey seemed to smile.

Annie smiled back.

“What’s going on?” said Jack.

“He wants to help us,” Annie said.

“Help us how?” said Jack.

The monkey held out the long stick.

Annie grabbed the other end.

The monkey pulled on the stick.

The canoe started floating toward him.

The monkey pulled the canoe all the way to the bank of the river.

줄거리)

The monkey hurled a red fruit at the canoe.

Annie shouted to the monkey to stop that.

But the monkey grabbed another fruit and then hurled it at Jack and Annie again.

Moreover the monkey hurled the third fruit at them, too.

Annie hurled a fruit back at the monkey, but missed and almost fell out of the canoe.

And Annie yelled at the monkey, “You’re the meanest thing in the world.”

After that the monkey moved away toward the forest.

Suddenly the rain fell in the river.

Jack and Annie knew that they had to go shore but they had no way.

And then the bratty monkey was back with a long stick.

The monkey and Annie stared at each other for a long moment.

And then Annie noticed the monkey wanted to help them.

The monkey held out the stick to the canoe, Annie grabbed it.

And then the monkey pulled on the stick to pull the canoe to the bank of the river.