summary of the adventures of toto
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Toto was a pretty monkey.Grandfather bought him from a tonga driver for the sum of five rupees.Grandfather made him stay in his private zoo.
Once grandfather had to go to Sahranpur to collect some money,and he took Toto with him because he didn't liked the company of other animals.Grandfather took him in a bag and when grandfather was showing ticket to the ticket collecter Toto popped out of the bag and gave the ticket collecter a wide grin.Grandfather was charged money as Toto was assumed as a dog.
Toto loved to take bath in warm water and he learnt this from grandfather so once a kettle was on the stove and Toto found the water enough warm for him and he sat inside that kettle.After sometime grandmother noticed Toto and he was saved from being burned.
Grandfather returned Toto for the sum of three rupees as toto was not sort of pet they could keep for long as they could not afford frequent loss of dishes,clothes and some other material.
Summary of The Adventures of Toto
The Adventures of Toto by Ruskin Bond is an amusing story highlighting the antics of a mischievous monkey.
The narrator’s grandfather bought Toto, a little red monkey from a tonga driver to add to his collection of animals in his private zoo.
Toto was an attractive monkey with sparkling eyes. He would take special delight in scaring elderly Anglo-Indian ladies. Since grandmother was always averse to grandfather’s collection of animals, he decided to keep the news about Toto hidden from her until she was in better mood.
Toto was temporarily kept in a closet that opened into the narrator’s bedroom. After a few hours of keeping Toto in the closet, when the narrator and the grandfather came to see Toto, they were in for a shock. Toto had torn the wallpaper; the peg with which Toto had been bound, had been wrenched off the wall. The narrator’s school blazer had been torn into pieces.
The grandfather was quite happy at the monkey’s adventures. After this it was decided that Toto would be transferred to the cage where other animals such as a tortoise, a pair of rabbits, a tame squirrel and, narrator’s pet goat lived amiably. But Toto would create trouble for all of them.
The grandfather had to go to Saharanpur to collect his pension. He decided to take Toto along in a big canvas bag. Since there was no opening in the bag to allow his hands or face to come out, he would often jump inside the bag, making the bag look like as if there was a spirit in it.
As soon as the train reached Saharanpur, Toto scared the ticket-collector by popping his head out of the bag and grinning at him. The ticket-collector was annoyed at the discovery and asserted that the grandfather would have to pay for Toto’s fare. The ticket-collector assumed Toto to be a dog and would not listen to the grandfather’s argument that it was not a dog.
Once the grandmother accepted Toto, he was shifted to stable where, Nana, the family donkey lived. Toto could not get along with Nana as well.
Toto loved to take bath in hot water in winter in the same manner as the narrator would do. He would first check the hotness of water before jumping into the hot water bowl.