
A lively narrator walks us through a parade of creatures—ibexes leaping over cliffs, raccoons scaling branches, walruses with ivory tusks—each described with a blend of curiosity and gentle humor. In the middle of this natural catalogue, two goats find themselves stuck on a razor‑thin ridge high above the ground, unable to turn back or move forward without risking a fatal fall. Their panic turns to ingenuity when one goat kneels and the other carefully climbs over its back, allowing both to reach safety.
The tale continues with the same whimsical voice, shifting to a sick monkey who learns to take medicine on his own, and sprinkling in quirky observations about elk, hogs, and even a learned pig. While the story never rushes to a grand climax, it offers a warm reminder that cooperation and clever thinking can turn a precarious situation into a shared triumph, all wrapped in an entertaining, animal‑rich world.
Language
en
Duration
~4 minutes (3K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Colin Bell, monkeyclogs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2011-02-27
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Some of literature’s most enduring voices come to us without a confirmed name. “Anonymous” stands for storytellers whose identities were never recorded, were deliberately concealed, or were lost over time.
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