Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-10-17
A PET MD 4 NUISANCE
ioCKo Ire O:SREPUTE Wits rtie
NEW YORK HEALTH BOARD.

Tightrope of Hrs. Kaufaian's ClntSe.-
line, Picks Putty Ont of Skyiight and
Steals Pennies and Milk.
For two years now Jocko has been
having things pretty much his own way
in back yard in East Fourth street.
But at last he has run up against snag.
Doubtless if Joc5o had been content
with his own back yard and had not
gone about providing for new back yards
10 conquer, his name today would not
be on the blotter of the health boards
big book. at the weekly meeting OF the
board it will be decided whether he may
keep up his noGlaGic prOcliyities un-
molested OF whether in the future he is
to be chained to a ring IN the area steps.
Jockn is the pet monkey of Josef Holt
mann, who does brisk business in the
easement at 81 East Fourth street. A
sea- captain, who had come home from "a
VOYAGE to South America for cOccanuts,
brought back JCcko with him. and gave
the animal to Mr.. Hoffman,. If Jocko
had stuck his long, sharp claws into Mr..
Hoffman heart he couldn't have secured
a deeper hold On that portion of the lat
ter's anatomy than he did on the first
day Of his installment in the basement
in East Fourth street.
Every twenty-fOur hours which have
,,assed since then have only so!ierel
nlore firmly she ties between the monkey
and his master. So fond, indeed, has
lis owner become of the curious little
animal that he has never had the heart
to correct him in any way. The result
was the usual one. Jocko was spoiled.
JoCKo AND THE CLoTHEsLINE.
So one day. rs Jocko was citing rurni-
mating in the back yard3'+with a leg
swung about the trellis and his tail
wound around the grape vine, he spied
Mrs. Kaufman, of the third floor. back.
hanging her washing out to dry.
Mrs. Kaufman closed the window,
leaving her linen, which she had got up
al o'clock to wash, hanging in the sun.
.Iocko waited whole minute after he
heard the sash bang. Then, with cat
like movement, he gained the top of the
high back fence, scampered up the fire
escape of an adjoining building, made
we'll calculated leap of three feet and
landed on the nearest point of vantage
of the taut ropes of Mrs. Kaufman's
clothesline
Like a tightrope walker, Jocko tripped
along the line. He put mp one paw to
MS whisker, just as the real performer
does when he smirks and throws the in
initable kiss to the audience. Then
Jocko began his aerial feats in earnest.
When Mrs. Kaufman went to haul in
her lines that evening she stood as one
amazed. Her stockings strewed the
ground below like the fallen leaves Of
Vallambrosa. Her tablecloths and sheets,
where they We're not torn in places, were
tracked in pattern IL which the chief
figure was the imprint of q muddy paw.
Some of her linen was actually missing.
Mrs. Kaufman had to get up early the
next morning again. pull out her thread
and needle. and, after mending for al
most an hour, do her whole wash over.
But Jocko never ran amuck among
Mrs. Kaufrnan's wash any more. He
had experienced a new sensation, and
having once satisfied himself with that
he began 10 east about for fsssh tlelds
and pastures new. OF course, if he
wanted to make use of Mrs. Kaufmant
or any other persons convenient lines.
locke never hesitated to use them as a
public thoroughfare. But as diversion,
clothesliaes had lost their seductive
charms for the monkey.
THE HALTER PROTESTS.
So while looking about another morn
ing for something new and strange" he
clamhered up on to the roof of the ex-
tension built out from hat store on the
Bowery The skylight was open and
Jocko began dropping odd bits which he
picked Up off the roof down into the
room below His Simian Majesty was
scared away.
Then J0cko's instructive feeling of dis
like for the Lyman family asserted itself
The next day and the next JOcko quietly
lerched himself on the rim of the sky
light over the extension of the halter
and began picking away the pntty about
the panes. But Jocko had not progressed
far i'll his operations before he was found
out. Then Mr.. HyInan's patience gave
ont, for he saw his living apartments
threatened with a leak. He was not as
rs his neighbOr. Mrs. Kant
man, who satisfied her grievance by
shouting ont vengeance from her back
windows upon the niUakey. The latter
went right down 10 the board of health
and lodged complaint against Mr..
;IoEinalns pet.
One of 10, kos tricks is to so out early
ii tle morning and steal the pennies
which arc placed in milk pitchers, and
moi be- is to gatlier up letters which the
nostman leaves under the basement gatea
Ie;r Ike monkeys home. Whether he
views the Italian ut the corner with in
stinctive hatred or as natural friend ii
~ impossible TO say. but sure it is that
when JOcko wants peanut or fig he
makes no scruple of bagging one from
he stand Another one of JOcko'S cum
hing ways is to Stuck his snOui into any
inviting bottle of milk or disi. of pud
ding that is set out of q back window 10
cool, and then make his escape with his
stomach full Of the delicacy.
Pending the result of the inquiry Mr..
Hoffmann is q little anxious for fear the
health board my compel him to i'm
prison his dear Jocllo. But Jocko runs
about as usual with no fear for conse-
ouences at all. One shake of his right
paw against his left whisker fixed" the
sanitary INSPECTOR. And if that was not
sufficient Jocko knows enough to ones
ton the right of the health board to in
terfere in his case at all.-New Y0rb
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