the colored hats

Once upon a time, there was a man who had fifty colored hats. His wife put them into a bag and told him goodbye, and he went to sell them at the fair.

He walked a dusty road, until he arrived at a forest. He felt so cold under the trees, that he threw down the bag and sat dawn to rest. He took a hat out of the bag, put in on, leaned against the tree, and he fell asleep.

But the man didn´t know that in the forest there lived a gang a monkeys. After a while an old monkey came down from a tree, and he went over to the sleeping man.

He carefully pulled one hat out of the bag and put it on his head. Then he climbed up the tree again and sat dawn on a branch, laughing. Everyone knows that monkeys like to mimic a people.

Seeing what the older monkey had done, a younger monkey jumped out of a tree, and he walked very quietly over to the man. He took a hat and returned to the tree. Very quickly the other monkeys did the same. 

Finally,  there were forty-nine monkeys in the trees with colored hats. They had all put the hats on their head and were laughing. The monkeys were so noisey that the man woke up, and he saw that the bag was empty.

He screamed, "What will I do? What will I say to my wife when go home without any money and without any hats?" 

He was so angry that he took off his hat and threw it on the ground. The fourty-nine monkey saw what he had done, and at the same time all monkeys took off their hats and threw them on the ground.

The man couldn't believe what he saw. He picked up all hats, put them in the bag, and went to sell them at the fair.