The Bobtail Monkey-Storytelling Podcast for Kids:E366

Once there was a monkey who was very young and foolish.

He was always playing tricks and doing foolish and dangerous things.

All the other monkeys kept telling him he ought to be more careful or someday he would get hurt, but he just wouldn't listen to them at all.

One day, he was racing through the forest, climbing the highest trees and swinging from the longest vines, and he was so careless that he fell down out of the trees right into [thorns rustling] a thorn bush.

A long, sharp thorn went right through the tip of his tail.

[spring bouncing] "Ouch! Oh, ouch!" he cried, holding his tail.

"Oh, how it hurts!" And he began bawling very loudly, for you see, the foolish monkey wasn't a brave monkey at all.

[gentle music] Just then, a barber came walking by, carrying his razor with him.

When the monkey saw him, he said, "Please, Mr. Barber, help me cut this thorn out of my tail." So the barber got out his razor and started to cut the thorn out.

But remember, the foolish monkey wasn't very brave.

So when he saw the razor getting near his tail, he yelled, "Oh, it's going to hurt!" And with these words, he gave a big jump.

[spring bouncing] The razor went through his tail, cutting the tip of it right off.

[razor hissing] When the monkey saw this, he became very angry.

"Just look what you've done to my tail!" he said.

"You must put my tail back on for me, or else you'll have to give me your razor." Of course, the barber couldn't put the monkey's tail back on.

So instead, he gave the monkey his razor.

Then the foolish monkey went walking away through the forest, carrying the razor with him.

He looked very silly with a bobbed tail, but he was so proud of the razor that he didn't even think about his tail.