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As soon as their heads felt a little better, the lion and lioness took the cocoa-nuts.

And carried them to Jacko.

They had to make a very large hole to put them in, but they built it up carefully again.

Jacko was very much delighted to get the cocoa-nuts, but he had hard work tearing off the hairy outside.

However at last he got it all off. Then he smashed the cocoa-nuts with a stone, and drank the milk, and began eating the nut; and wasn't it good after a whole week of bananas!

While he ate it, he amused himself making a nice warm coat for himself of the hairy husk of the cocoa-nuts, and he was so busy he did not notice how much he was eating.

And when he put his warm coat on he just looked fearfully fat.

And the lion and lioness peeping in, thought it was all Jacko, and they were delighted.

"Isn't he fat and tender?" they said. "We'll eat him to-night, and not wait for Mr. Bear."

And they went out for a walk, to get a good appetite.

Poor Jacko! He did not eat any more cocoa-nut after he heard that. He pulled off his coat, and smoothed his hair down with his little paws, but still he looked fat.

And he smeared himself all over with bananas to make the hair lie flat, but still he looked fat.

So he put on his warm coat again, and lay down, and cried himself to sleep.

But you must know the bear was a very greedy old bear, and that very afternoon, while Jacko was asleep, he came to have a private peep at him.

And when he saw him looking so lovely and fat, he just could not resist the temptation, and began pulling down the stones as fast as he could, intending to eat him all by himself. But he was an awkward, clumsy old bear, and all of a