Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-22
THE MONKEYS LIFE IN IN.
Ola.
Living Among Men and Play
ing With the Children.

Living Among Men and Play
ing With the Children.
London Telegraph.
In India, where the monkeys live
among men and are the playmates OF
the children, the Hindoos have grown
fond of them, and the four-handed
folks participate in all their simple
household rites. In the early morning,
when the peasant goes out to yoke his
oxen, and the crow wakes up, and the
dog stretches himself and shakes off the
dust in which he has slept all night, the
old monkey creeps down the peepul
tree, only half awake, and yawns and
looks about him, puts a straw into his
mouth, and scratches himself contemp-
l~atively. Then n by one the whole
family come slipping down the tree
trunk, and they all yawn and look about
and scratch. But they are sleepy and
peevish and the Youngsters get cuffed
| for nothing, and begin TO think life dull.
Yet the toilet has to be performed, and,
whether they like it or not, the young
ones are sterniy pulled up, n by one,
10 their mother to undergo the process.
The scene, though repeated exactly
every morning, loses nothing OF its de-
lightiul ~comicality, and the monkey
brats seem all to he in the joke OF TAX
ing in mamma" But was
Young herself not so very long ago, and
treats each ludicrous afiectation OF sui
fering with the profoundest unconcern,
and, as she dismisses N Cleaned
youngster with a cuff, stretches out her
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most business.like and serious manner
possible. The youngsters know their
turn quite well. As each feels the mo-
ment arrive it throws itself or its stOm-
ach as il overwhelmed with apprehen-
sion, the others meanwhile sitting their
satisfaction at the way ''so-and-so Is do
ing it," and the instant the maternal
paw is extended to grasp the tail, the
subject OF the next experiment utters a
piercing shrek, and thr )wing its arms
forward in the dust, allows itself to be
dragged along n limp and helpless car
cass, winking all the time, no doubt, at
its brothers and sisters, at the way 1t is
imposing on the old lady. But the old
lady will stand no nonsense, and turn
ing the child right side up, proceeds to
put il [ o rights, takes the kinks out oil
its tail and the knots outof its u r,pokes
its fingers into its ears and looks at each
OF its toes, the irrepressible brat all the
time wearing on his lace an absurd ex-
preston OF hopeless and incurable grief,
those who have been already cleansed
looIing on with delight at the scream
ing farce and those who are waiting
wearing a becoming aspect OF enormous
gravity. The old lady, however, has
| her Joke too, which is to cuff each young
ster before she let's it 90, and nimble as
her offspring are, she generally, to her
credit be it said, manages TO fetch them
one on the ears" before they are out oil
reach, The father, meanwhile, sits
/ p~rayely with his back to all these dom
este matters, waiting for breakfast.
Presently the mats before the hut doors
are pushed down, and women with brass
vessels in their hands, come out, and
while they scOur the pots and pans with
| dust exchange between songs the com-
| pliments OF the morning. The monkeys
by this time have come closer to the
| preparations for food and sit solemnly,
| household by household, watching
every movement. Hindoos do not hur-
~ themselves III duytiiihS WY w, ON,
the monkey has plenty OF patience, and
in the end, when the crow has stolen a
little, and the dog has had its morsel,
and the children are satisfied, the irag-
ments OF the meal are thrown out on
| the ground for the "bhunder ogue," the
monkey people, and it is o discuss
ed, the mother feeding the baby before
she herself eats.