Andy the monkey heard the party sounds coming from the dining room. He really wanted to join them. The key to his cage was lying close by.
He stretched his arm between the bars, but it was just out of reach. He saw an artist’s brush nearby. The determined monkey got the brush and used it to drag the key closer. And then he grabbed it with his bony little fingers.
Andy couldn’t wait to join the group. Whenever he went to a dinner party, he had three favorite things he loved to do. One of them was eating.
The second was swinging. With food on the table and lights hanging from the ceiling, the grand dining hall was where he wanted to be.
The little monkey surprised everyone when he scampered into the room and jumped onto the table. First, Andy darted from dish to dish, grabbing food and stuffing it into his mouth. Then, with food in hand, he leaped up to the lights and started swinging from one dangling fixture to the other.
The excited monkey moved onto his third favorite thing to do at a dinner party which was throwing….