The Complete Adventures of Curious George (23 page)

Then he looked up.

There they were, way up in the sky!

Bill had to get help fast.

He would go to the man with the yellow hat.

The man would know what to do.

"George is not here," said the man with the yellow hat when Bill came.

"Have you seen him?"

"George and my kite are up in the sky near the lake," Bill shouted.

"I came to..."

But the man did not wait to hear any more.

He ran to his car and jumped in.

"I will get him back," he said.

"I must get George back."

All this time the wind took the kite up and George with it.

It was fun to fly about in the sky.

But when George looked down, the fun was gone.

He was up so high that all the big houses looked as little as bunny houses.

George did not like it a bit.

He wanted to get down, but how?

Not even a monkey can jump from the sky.

George was scared.

What if he never got back?

Maybe he would fly on and on and on.

Oh, he would never, never be so curious again, if just this one time he could find a way to get home.

Hummmmm—hummmmm.

What was that?

George could hear something, and then he saw something fly in the sky just like a kite.

It was a helicopter, and in the helicopter, hurrah, was the man with the yellow hat!

Down from the helicopter came a long line.

George got hold of it, and the man with the yellow hat pulled him up.

George held on to the kite, for he had to give it back to Bill.