The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-09-19

were over forty in all, think.
 Now, these little fellows had a favor. ite spot On the booms, where they eius- tered together like merchants at an ex- change to discuss the morning news.
 Here the men were in the habit of feed ing them with bananas, plaintains sugar cane, and other delicacies, which they carefully slowed away in their jaws ready for future use.
 " Latterly 1 had run very short of ba- naDas. and Jocko felt the privation very much, for he had to resort to the mems messes, particularly on duff days, when he obtained a plentiful supply of plums. He had been noticed to take his seat in the slings of the main yard, watching the lit- tie marmosets as they were fed by their owners, and cooking his ears knowingly whenever one of them slowed away his banana in his false jaw. Those who were acquainted with Jocko's habits knew that he had some deviltry in his head. and were looking forward for fun !; they knew he was not watching the mar. mosets fsr nothing.
 "One morning, when the marmosets had all been fed according to custom Uoeko watching them all the time) and had assembled in group to digest their food, the monkey quietly arose from his hiding place in the slings of the yard and noiselessly slid down the main-stay until he was right over the marmosets. Then. throwing down his tail, he caught a couple of the little fellows in a running bowline and hauled them up to the stay, the marmosets kicking and screaming with all their might and trying to get away. or course everyone who saw it killed themselves laughing, while Jocko knowingly winked his eye to all around, and then taking one of the little monkeys by the back of the neck, and squet zing his mouth open, he put in his finger and pulled out the contents of his false jaw. which he immediately transferred to his own stomach.
 " To add insult to injury, Jocko laugh ghed so immoderately that it frightened Poll from her nap and she sung out, Silence 1; all hands witness punishment and swore round oaths enough to sink ship of the line. Jocko quietly dropped the marmo. Sets on the mats in the launch (which were put there to dry), and proceeded to haul up two more with his tail, and they received no better treatment than did the first. So he continued until he had made a good meal of the bananas they had slowed away in their magazines, and which had been so piously kept by the owners of the little brutes-"
 Beg your pardon, sir,' said the doc tor, but thought (if am not mistaken) that you remarked that the monkey had lost his caudal extremity, and, if so, he must have lost the property of contract. bihty belonging to muscular tissue.'
 "' Not at all, doctor,' the commodore replied the tail grew out again after I got him, and he possessed in a greater degree than ever the contractibility of the " cheerybum pinealhouse," and the back action of the pinealhouse cock-eye sea- horse," as you were kind enough to ex plain to us.'
 "' Permit me to correct you, sir said the doctor, who seemed to be a little an noyed. I spoke of the cerebrum and medulla spinales " the "spinales dorsi," and the coccygous."
 "'All the same,' said the commodore rose, you know, smells sweet if you call 1t an onion, as the poets say. Isn't that so, Mir. ShackelbagsP
 "' Ay, ay, sir said Shackelbags, who had fallen asleep in his chair, all ready to cut, sir; let go the anchor, and poor old Shacklebags woke up, mortified to death to think that he should have gone 10 sleep while the commodore was telling a story. He saw his promotion further Dft than ever, and the wine in his nose actually forced itself out through the toes of his boots.
 "'W We'll, gentlemen,' continued the commodore, see some of you are get ing sleepy and must bring my story to a close
 "The monkey continued his attacks m the marmosets every day, and, after llling himself with bananas, would retire o the lee main yard-arm, stretch himself put, and take comfortable nap. The poor little devils were harassed to death, md dwindled away to mere specters for want of food, while Jocko grew fat on his l-gotten plunder.
 One evening, just after sunset, the 'ftlcer of the deck noticed great excite nept among the marmosets. They 'eefhed to have assembled together for 'ome particular object and one in par icular, who seemed more excited than he rest (which he evinced by his chat ering), seemed to be addressing the :rowd. They kept it up until after dark, |ocko meanwhile slumoering peacefully on the end of the mainyard, little dream ng of the danger hanging over him.
 Suddenly the little fellows, apparently moved by one impulse, rushed up on the yard by stay shrouds, or any rope they could lay hold of, and, before Jocko was Aware of it, they attacked him in the rear, md pushed him overboard into the sea, md then, giving three cheers in the mar no>et language, they slid down to their places and kept up chattering all night l
 "The officer Of the deck, who had wit ,essed the whole scene, immediately cut lway the life buoy and luffed the vessel | ,p in the wind, but, though beat was owered, the body cold not be found, l md that was the end of poor Jocko.
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