Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-10

| who have to work for living. "hlie
all do is to enjoy myself.
am very glad that / am not manu-
organ monkey that has to wear funny
clothes and have string to his neck
all the time. ] should get awfuiiy
tired if thought was obliged to PICK
up pennies and travel around on
squeaky old organ all these hot days
What do do all the time =?
I'll tell you one thing that did IN
morning. A gentleman came INTO 'hI
house to see me, and OF course
hoped down to see if he had any CANDY
He did have some and it looked very
funny / took it and put it my mouth,
and in just about a minute L found IL
was all full of pepper. l didn't say
anything, but / went out near the gen
tleman again and put out my mana u
him. He thought didn't know or the
joke he tried to play on me, so he cams
close up to the cage, and in second -,
had his watch out of his pocket ana
was over on the other side of the cage
out of reach.
Then l came back. jumped up into
the swing, and held up the watch SO ne
might see it.
Oh! how cross that man was. L
thought he would shoot me, but ne
didn't: he just clinched his hands and
stamped and said things. Then ne
went out after the keeper, and while
he was gone 1 covered the watch up
with sawdust and went up to the very
highest perch, where l pretended to go
to sleep.
Soon the man came back with the
keeper. He could neither see me nor
the watch and he was furious. Inc
keeper ratified his stick, but ! kept still
where l was and all the other monkeys
laughed.
After they had both scolded for some
time they turned to go. Then jumped
down, took the watch out of the saw
dust and dropped it with a bang outside
of the cage on the floor. The keeper
and the man both jumped, but by the
time they were back at the cage / was
on the top perch again.
Just as the two walked away heard
the keeper say that the man would
know better than to fool with the
monkeys next time.
If hadn't been such mischievous
monkey 1 never would have had to live
up here behind the bars.
! remember once when / belonged to
a very nice old lady, who didn't have
any husband, and who had two or three
cats, parrot and myself, that had an
awful scare.
One day the old lady took nap, and
left me unclaimed in the sitting-room.
Well, pulled hair out of the eat, pulled
plants out of the pot, stuck pins into
oil paintinOS scared the parrOt most to
death and had quiet time generally.
Then / began to feel lonesome, and
wanted some fun, so ! went into the
bedroom where my mistress was and
thought would pull her hair.
| jumped up on the bed. took hold of
her hair and gave one pull, and what do
you think, every hair that she had on
her head came off, leaving her head as
smooth as the back of her hand.
I gave a cry, dropped the wig over the
old lady's face and ran. Then l heard
somebody shout Murder! Police. Fire.
and when l peeped into the bedroom
again, there was my mistress struggling
on the bed and half smothered by that
heavy wig. She thought somebody was
trying to kill her.
That was about all the fun l had that
week. I had my chain shortened and
lived on bread and water for awhile,
and the cats would laugh at me every
time they went by.
I wonder why it's naughty to enjoy
yourself ] don't think of anything
more now.
My! there's little boy with bag of
peanuts. Hooray! Goodbye. j cll, in
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