Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-20
Why the Monkey was Sold.

II was on Tuesday that ] got the
mon key, and by Thursday everybody
began TO treat him ccldly. 1t began
with nv little sister. Jocko took her
doll away and climbed up to the top OF
the door with it, where he sat and pull
ed It to pieces and tried its clothes on,
only they wouldn't fit him, while SIS
ter, who is nothing but little girl,
stood and howled as il she was being
killed. This made mother begin to dis
like the monkey, and she said that If
Ills conduct was such he couldn't stay
ia her house. ! call this unkind, Tor
the monkey vas invited into the house,
and I've been told we must bear with
visitors.
A little while afIerward, while
mother was talking to Susan on the
front piazza, she heard the sewing
machine upstairs, and said: 'Well, |
never, that cook has the impudence to
lie sewing on my machine without ever
asking leave" So she ran up stars
and found that Jocko was working the
machine like mad. He'd taken Sues
night-gown and fathers black coat and
a lot of stockings, and showed them all
under the needle, and was sewing
them all together. Mother boxed his
ears, and then she and Sue sat down
and worked al the morning trying TO
unsew the things with the scissors.
They had to give il up after while,
aud the things are sewed together yet,
All this made my mother more cool
toward the monkey than ever, and
heard her call him little beast.
The next day was Sunday, and as
Sue was sitting in the hall waiting for
mother to 90 to church with her, Jocko
gets up on her chair and pulls the
feathers out Of her bonnet. He thought
he was doing right, for he had seen the
cook pulling the feathers off the chick
ems, brit Sue called him dreadful names,
and said that when father came home
either she or that monkey would leave
the house.
Father came home early on Monday,
and seemed quite pleased with the
monkey. He said it was an interesting |
study, and he told Susan that he hoped |
that she would be contented with |
fewer beaux now that there was mon
key constantly in the house. In lit
tie while father caught Jocko latheriDg |
himself with a mueilage brush, and
with kitchen knife already to shave
himself. He just laughed at the mon
key, and told me to take good care of
INN and not let him hurt himself. OF
course, L was dreadfully pleased to
find that father liked Jocko, and l
knew that it was because he was a man
and had more sense than girls. But L
was only deceivIng myself and leaning
on broken reed. That very evening
when father went into his study after
He had torn all his papers. except a
splendid new map, and that he was
covering with ink, ane making believe
ie was writing a presidents message
bout the Panama canal. Father was /;
ust raging. He took Jocko by the /,
crCff of the neck locked him up in the I
lOset, and sent him away by express
he next morning to a man in the city,
nth orders TO sell him.
The expressman afterward told Mr.. I.
'rayers that the monkey pretty nearly
ilied everybody on the train, for he
OF mold OF the signal cord and pulled [
, and the engineer thought it was the c
)nductOr and stopped the train, and = =
lOther train just behind it came with r
l an inch of running into it and I
flashing it to pieces. Jocko did the a
me thing three times before they e
und out what was the matter, and =, u
ed him up so that he couldn't reach
e cord. Oh, he was just beautiful!
ut l shall never see him again, and i,
n. Travers says that it's all right, A
nd that l IN monkey enough for one II
ouse. That's because Sue has been
IyIng things against the monkey to a
i'm; but never MUD. v
First my dog went and now my tt
lonkey has gone. 1t seems that every 10
ling that is beautiful must disappear.
cry likely shall 60 next, and when :,
am gone let them find the dog and 8
he monkey and bury US together. /