"The princess was angry, and she knew, of course, who did it.
She had all the Winged Monkeys brought before her,
and she said at first that their wings should be tied and they should be treated as they had treated Quelala, and dropped in the river.
My grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied,
and Quelala said a kind word for them also;
so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap.
This Cap had been made for a wedding present to Quelala,
and it is said to have cost the princess half her kingdom.
Of course my grandfather and all the other Monkeys at once agreed to the condition,
that is how it happens that we are three times the slaves of the owner of the Golden Cap, whosoever he may be."
"And what became of them?" asked Dorothy, who had been greatly interested in the story.
"Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap," replied the Monkey,
"he was the first to lay his wishes upon us."
As his bride could not bear the singt of us,
he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey,
which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her.