Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-28
NO. a.
Miseellaneous.
Why the Monkey was Sold.

II was on Tuesday that got the mon-
key, and by Thursday everybody began
to treat him coldly. 1t began with my lit
tie sister. .Tocko took her doll away and
climbed up to the top of the door with il.
where he sat aud pulled it to pieces and
tried its clothes on, only they wouldn't fit
him. while sister, who is nothing but
little girl. stood and howled as if she was
being killed. This made mother begin
to dislike the monkey, and she said that il
h,s conduct was such he couldn't stay in
her house. ! call this unkind, for the
monkey was invited into the house, and
Eve been told we must bear with visitors.
little while afterward. while mother
was talking 10 Susan on the front piazza,
she heard the sewing machine up stairs.
end said; We'll | never, that cook has
the impudence to be sewing on nv ma
chine without ever asking leave" so she
ran up stairs and found that .Jocko WAS
was working the machine like mad He'd
taken Sues nightgown and fathers black
coat and a lot oi stockings, and showed
them all under the needle. and was sewing
them all together. Mother boxed his ears,
and then she ana Sue sat down and worked
all the morning trying to unsew the things
with the scissors They had TO give il up
after while. and the things are sewcd to.
gether 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 rs Sue
was sitting in the hall waiting for mother
TO go 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 chickens. but Sue called
him dreadful names. and said that when
father came home either she or that mon
kew would leave the house.
Father came home early on Monday,
and seemed quite pleased with the monkey.
lie 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 monkey constantly in the
house. In little while father caught
Jocko lathcring himself with the mucil-
age brush. and with a kitchen knife al
ready to shave himself. He just laughed
at the monkey, and told me to take good
care of him and not let him hurt himself.
OF course. | was dreadfully pleased to
find that father liked Jocko. and knew
that it was because he was man and had
more sense than girls. But was only
deceiving myself and leaning on broken
reed. That very evening when father
went into his study after supper he found
Jocko on his desk. He had torn all his
papers to pieces, except splendid new
map, and that he was covering with ink.
and making believe he was writing n
Presidents message about the Panama
canal. Father was Just raging. He took
Jocko by the scruff OF the neck. locked
him up in the closet. and sent him away
by express the next morning to a man IN
the city, with orders to sell him.
The cxpressman afterward told Mr.
Travers that the monkey pretty nearly
killed everybody on the train, for he got
hold of the signal cord and pulled it, and
the engineer thought it was the conductor
and stopped the train. and another train
Just behind it came within an inch Of run.
ming into it and smashing it TO pieces.
Jocko did the same thing three times be-
fore they found ont what was the matter
and tied him up so that he couldn't reach
the cord Oh, he was Just beautiful But
shall never see him again. and Mr..
Travers says that it's all right. and that
I'm monkey enough for one house That's
because Sne has been saying things against
the monkey to him; but never mind.
First NV dog went and now my monkey,
has gone. 1t seems as ifeverything beau
tiful must disappear. Very likely shall
90 next, and when ! am gone let them
find the dog aud the monkey and bury us
together.