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A bite-sized story with repetitive sentence structure about a fickle monkey who can't focus long enough to enjoy his meal.

<h4>Some language stuff</h4>
If you're brand new to Chinese reading, this is a good introduction to some common grammar. 

又 [pinyin]you4[/pinyin] [adj.] 又 [pinyin]you4[/pinyin] [adj.] - In English, when we use two words to describe something, we usually just separate them with "and", like "big and round", "bright and shiny". But in Chinese, they can sometimes use 又 in front of both adjectives, like this: "又 big 又 round" or "又 bright 又 shiny". This phrasing is used several times here.

着 zhe - I've covered the use of this character <a href="http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2012/01/02/little-dog-wears-shoes/">in another beginner post</a>. It has several meanings, but in this paragraph, it basically just means "-ing", as in walk-ing, tak-ing, runn-ing. 

只好 [pinyin]zhi3 hao3[/pinyin] - Meaning to be forced to, to have no other choice but to

<a href="https://wenku.baidu.com/view/290230fdfab069dc50220176.html">Source is here</a>.
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<h4>小猴子掰玉米</h4>
有一天，一只小猴子下山来。它走到一块玉米地里，看见玉米长得又大又多，非常高兴，就偷了一个，拿着往前走。小猴子拿着玉米，走到一棵桃树下。它看见树上的桃子又大又红，非常高兴，就扔了玉米去摘桃子。小猴子拿着几个桃子，走到一片瓜地里。它看见西瓜又大又圆，非常高兴，就扔了桃子去摘西瓜。小猴子拿着一个大西瓜往回走。走着走着，看见一只小兔子，真可爱。它非常高兴，就扔了西瓜去追小兔。小兔跑进树林里，不见了。小猴子只好空着手回家去。
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One day, Little Monkey came down from the mountain. He walked to a field of corn, and saw that the corn had grown large and abundant, [this made him] very happy, so he stole one, and holding it walked on. Holding the corn, he walked to the bottom of a big peach tree. He saw the peaches in the tree were big and red, [this made him] very happy, and he threw down the corn to pick the peaches. Little Monkey took several peaches, and walked to a watermelon field. He saw the watermelons were big and round, [this made him very happy], so he threw down the peaches to pick the watermelons. Little Monkey a big watermelon and [started] walking back. Walking and walking, he saw a rabbit, it was very cute. [It made him] very happy, so he threw down the watermelon to chase the rabbit. The rabbit ran into the forest, and disappeared. Little Monkey had to go home empty-handed.
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