Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-02-06

dered the sack, inside which the white
baboon was kicking violently, and
screaming like child. 1t was dreadful
to hear it's shrieks.
1--WE scrambled down the sides of the
kloof and ran for home as fast as we
could manage. When we were near the
waterfall and within about three hun,
dred yards of the garden wall, we heard
a voice behind us, and there, leapinu
from rock to rock, and running over the
grass, was the whole family of balloons,
headed by the old man.
"'Run, rum gasped Hendrix, and did,
like tho wind, leaving him far behind.
l dashed into the garden, where some
Kaffirs were working, crying: The baby
ans! the babyansp Luckily the men
had their sticks and spears by them and
ran out just in time to save Hendrix,
who was almost overtaken. The
balloons made good fight for it, how
ever, and it was not till the old man was
killed with an assegai that they ran
away.
"Well, there is 2. little hut in the
kraal at the stead where my father
sometimes shuts up natives who have
misbehaved. 1t is very strong, and has,
a barred window. To this hut Hendrix
carried the sack, and, having united the
mouth, mt it down on the floor and ran
from the place, shutting the door behind
him. in another moment the poor lit
tie thing was out and dashing round the
stone hut as though 1t we're mad 1t
sprung at the bars OF the window, chung
there, and beat its head against them
till tho blood came. Then 1t fell 80 the
floor, and sat there crying like child,
and rocking itself backward and for
ward 1t was so sad to see 1t that be-
gan to cry, too.
just then my father came in and
asked me what all the fuss was abou t..
told him that we had caught young
white baboon, aud he was angry, and
said that it must be let 60 But when
he looked at it through the bars of the
windov he nearly fell down with aston
ishment.
Why" he said, this is not babosn,
1t is white child that the balloons have
stolen and brought upr
is right or wrong you can judge for
yourself You sec. Hendrika we named
her that after Hendrix. who caught her
she is woman. not i monkey, and yet
she has many Of the ways of monkeys,
and looks like one. too You saw how
she can climb. for instance. and
you hear how she talks. Also she is
very savage, and when she is angry or
jealous She seems TO 60 mad, though she
is as clever As anybody. think she must
have been stolen by the balloons when
she was quite tiny and nurtured by them,
and that Is why she is so like them.
"But to go on. My father said that il
was our duty TO keep llendrika at any
cost. The worst Of it was that for three
days she would eat nothing, and
thought that She would die. for all the
while she sat and walled On the third
day, however. I went to the bars Of the
window-place and held out cup of milk
and some fruit to her. She looked at Il
for long while. then crept up moaning
took the milk from my hand and drank
it greedily, and afterwards ate the fruit
From that time forward she took food
readily enough, but only If would feed
her. But I must tell you Of the dread
full end Of Hendrix. From the day thai
we captured Hendrika the whole place
began to swarm with balloons, which
were evidently employed in watching