The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-14
MOGGs' MONKEY,

His real name was Phil. and he was
boy OF about ten years Of age; blue-eyed
golden-haired. 1.-the of limb and grace
full. and as unlike monkey as it was
possible for boy to be.
AS for Moggs. he was Phirs father.
ana his real name was Moggridge.
though no one. not even his most dis
tant acquaintance, ever thought of call.
ing him by it.
He was street acrobat, and coniuror,
and earned scanty and precarious liv.
ing by performing on square of carpet
eel IN the roadways, attired in
gorgeous fiesh-colored costume, with
spangles, while his head was bound with
fillet of gold braid.
When Phil was quite little fellow.
almost baby, he had taken part in
these exhibitions; had been tossed about
like a ball by his father, and led around
among the spectators by his mother to
carry the hat and beg for coppers, in
which latter line of the business he had
always been highly successful.
When Moggs had first started in the
public exercise of his profession, he had
possessed quite respectable company
OF performers; he had a poodle who
could walk on his fore paws, dance on
his hind legs. march like soldier, and
shoulder musket, and monkey who
was one of the cleverest and most anus
ing OF his kind; but, in the course of
time. the poodle had been stolen. and
the monkey went off in consumption
and died, and Moggs and Phil were left
to carry on the business alone.
1t was then that the boy came out in
new character, and acquired the name
bywhich he was ever afterwards known,
"Moggs' Monkey"
He had mask like MONKEYS head,
and used to clap il on over his own sun
ny face. and then, DOMINIC n little red
cap and a jacket to which had been art
fully fixed a long monkeys tail. he
would go through all poor Jacko's
tricks, as nimby and cleverly as the de-
funct animal itself had done.
1t used TO draw crowds of lookors-on
but for all that the business was a poor
one, and the father and son had alto
gether a very liberal allowance of "hard
time" Perhaps it was this which made
the poor draggle-tailed wife age prema-
turely, and at last, following in the
monkeys steps, 60 off in a rapid con-
sumption and die. TO the great grief of
the husband and child, who wept sin
cerely over her grave in the poor quar-
ter of a crowded London cemetery, and
then went drearily back TO their daily
toll OF tumbling and conjuring, feeling
as though they were becoming a very
small and forlorn band indeed
Phil missed his mother terribly; they
had loved each other passionately in
their poor common way. and the bows
heart ached for the love and sympathy
which had so frightened his hard bit
ter life.
For, despite his gay dress, his pink
stockings, and spangles and his laugha-
bic monkey disguise, it was often a very
dreary life indeed.
There were days when the wind was
cold and keen. when no sun shone. and
tho roads were wet and muddy. and
when, OF course, it was eminently I'M
pleasant To have to 60 out in his light
breezy costume; days, too, when he had
70 wear merry face. and tumble about
ieeilhg dreadfully hungry and misera-
pie' ana times when the public were
stiDgy and ndisposed TO bestow their
coppers, and the police harassed them.
and drove them about from pillar to post,
until they were readyto drop from NOR.
tiiication and WEAKNESS.
Yet still they stuck together. and
loved each other, and hoped for better
times, and then all at once into Pbirs
heart there crept something warm and
bright, which nestled there, and made
q rosy glow Of happiness in the midst Of
his blacklist troubles.
The fact was that Phil fell in love.
Yes, though he was only a boy Of
ten years Of age, he fell as hopelessly
and earnestly in love as though he had
been twenty, and romantic into the bar.
min.