The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

The Great Western will run various cheap excur-
sion trains on Thursday, March 29, to the North
(Wellington, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Welshpool,
Oswestry, Llangollen, Chester, Liverpool, Manches-
ter, &c., and Leamington, Warwick, Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, &c„ from Paddington, Reading,
Victoria, Battersea, Chelsea, and Kensington); re-
turning on Tuesday, April 3. From Paddington and
Readi n g for the West ( I Vesto n -super-Mare, Taunton,
Tiverton, Exeter, Teignmouth, Torquay, Totnes,
Dartmouth, Plymouth, &c.) ; returning on Satur
day, April 7. On Saturday excursion trains will
leave Paddington and Reading for Chippenham,
Trowbridge, Frome, Yeovil, Dorchester, Wey-
mouth, &c. (returning April 4;) while on Easter
Sunday an excursion train will leave Paddington
and Reading for Chippenham, Bath, and Bristol,
returning the same day ; and on Easter Monday for
Oxford, Banbury, Leamington, Warwick, Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, &c., returning the same or
the following day. On Good Friday trains will
run as on Sundays.

MR. BUCKLAND'S MONKEY.—I lately had a little
monkey who was such a great thief that if he had
been a human being he would have been transported over
and over again for numerous acts of petty larceny. I,
however, turned his thieving propensities to good account.
Master Jack (after I had had him some time) showed evi-
dent symptoms of phthisis or consumption, and I prescribed
cod liver oil. It was placed openly before him on tho
dining-room table, but he refused it with symptoms of
disgust and sundry tail-shakings. I then poured a little
into a saucer, and placed it in such a position that master
Jack should find it for himself, while I pretended to bo
reading and not to notice what was going on. The trap
took; Jack, thinking he was stealing the oil, sucked up the
prescribed dose, making a face, not implying nausea, but
rather high glee at his own cleverness. This "deceit,"
however, was after a time discovered by the artful creature,
and one day I found my friend with his long tail and arms
tightly coiled round tho table lamp, and stealing the colza
oil as it dropped down from the wick. Ho managed to get
one of his long spider-leg-like fingers through the brass
work of the lamp, and held it till a drop of oil fell on it ;
ho then put it in his mouth and sucked off the oil like a
child sucking sugar candy. How ho could manage to gaze
at the intense light, which one would have thought would
have hurt his eyes when so near the lighted wick, I know
not. I fancy, however, that the light bothered him some-
what, for he used to frown dreadfully when he was wait-
ing for the oil to drop on his finger. I placed colza oil be-
fore him ; no, he would not touch it ; but nevertheless he
had no qbjection to it when he stole it for himself from the
lamp. He was certainly better and fatter for his medicine,
which was so sweet because stolen, and I really think it
saved his life. The engraving by Mr. Carpendale repre-
sents Jack taking his medicine. Jack, too, had a marvel-
lous prospensity for picking things to pieces, and smashing
articles that came in his way ; strange to say he never
tore a useless bit of paper, or broke a common or valueless
bit of goods. One day he sneaked out of his cage, and had
a good morning's work to himself, tearing off the leather
and pulling out the lining of an old arm-chair. He was,
after an hour or two, discovered in the act, and taken into
custody to be duly chastised for his mischief. He cried
"Murder" when he saw preparations made to punish him,
but at the same time he held out his hand, firmly closed
upon something in it. His pickers and stealers were un-
clasped, and in the palm of his hand was discovered a half-
sovereign, which he had most certainly found and picked
out of the chair, and which probably had been buried in
the lining of the chair (an old second-hand one) for years.
His proffered ransom got him off his punishment; but his
investigations into the structure of watches, books, ink,
and cruet-stands, writing-desks, MS. notes, &c.,
have 2
since produced equally valuable discoveries. Nothing
pleased Jack so much as to make his escape, Jack Shep-
pard3ot
fashion, from the wire carriage in which he was kept
by the kitchen fire. He would pick and pick, with his long,
skeleton-like fingers, till he found the staple loose. If any-
body happened to look round at him whilethedwtaso at work,
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not bolt out in a moment, but push it open as gently and
gradually as a burglar. He would then sneak out, and the
cunning rascal would carry his chin on his tail to prevent
' it rattling on the stones, and tho servants detecting his
pranks. His object was to get to my room, and onlooking
found my friend nestled inside the fender. lie came into
the room so quietly that I did not know ho had escaped
from his cage till he called my attention by a friendly chat-
ter, as much as to say—" I've got loose so cleverly, you
really must not scold me for it."—Frankßuckland's
Curiosi-
ties of Natural history.
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