Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-12-05
A PET AND A NUISANCE
JOCKO IN olSRePUTE WITH THE
NEW YORK HEALTH BOARD.
Josef Ho6mann's Ecstatic Monkey Makes
Tightrope of Mrs. Kaufman's Clothes
line, Picks Putty Ont of q Skylight and
SteaIa Peuufea and Milk.

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 Jocko had been content
with his own back yard and had not
gone about providing for new back yards
to conquer. his name today would not
be on the blotter of the health board
big book. At the weekly meeting Of the
board it will be decided whether he may
keep up his nomadic proclivities UNI
molested or whether in the future he is
to be chained TO a ring In the area steps.
Jocko is the pet monkey of Josef Hof-
mann, who does brisk business in the
basement at 81 East Fourth street. A
sea captain, who lad come home from d
voyage to South America for cocoanuts,
brought back JCcko with him, and gave
the animal to Mr.. Hoffman,. If JockC
had stuck ms long, sharp claws into Mr..
Hoffman's heart he couldn't have secured
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 soldered
more firmly the ties between the monkey
and his master. So fond. indeed, has
his 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, as Jocko WAS sitting rumi-
mating in the back yard, with a leg
swung about the trellis and his tai
wound around the grape vine, he spied
Mrs Kaufman, of the third floor. back
hanging her washing oct TO dry.
Mrs. Kaufman closed the window
leaving her linen, which she had got uT
at o'clock to wash. hanging in the sun
Jocko 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 a
well calculated leap of three feet and
landed Oh 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 up one paw to
his whisker, Just a. the real performer
does when he s1nirks and throws the in
imitable 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
VallaInbrosa. Her tabiecloths and sheets,
where they were not torn In places. were
tracked III pattern in which the chief
figure was the imprint of n muddy paw.
Some of her linen was actually missing.
Mrs. Kaufman had to get up early the
next morning again, pull cut her thread
and needle, and. after mending for al
most an hour, do her whole wash over.
But JockO never ran ainuck among
Mrs. Kaufman's wash any more lie
had experienced a new sensation, and
having once satisfied himself with that
he began TO cast about for fresh fields
aud pastures new. Of course, if he
wanted to make use OF Mrs. Kaufman
or any other persons convenient lines.
Jocko never tesitated to use them as E
public thorcrghfare. But as q diversion,
clotheslines n:d lost their seductive
charms for the monkey.
THE Halter PROTESTS.
So while looking about another morn
l. I'D c-r hS
clambered up Oh 20 the roof of the ex
tension built out from hat store ON the
Bowery The sllyiight was open ana
Jocko began dropping odd bits which he
picked up off the roof down into the
room below. His Simisn Majesty was
scared away.
Then JOcko's instructive feeling OF dis
like for the Hyman family asserted itself
The next day and the next JockC quietly
perched himself on the rim Of the sky
light over the extension of the halter
and began picking away the putty about
tine panes. But Jocko had not progressed
far in his operations before he was found
out. Then Mr. Hyman's patience gave
out. for he saw his living apartments
threatened with a leak. He was not as
complacent us his neighbor, Mrs. Kauf-
man, who satisfied her grievance by
shouting out vengeance from her back
windows upon the monkey. The latter
went right down 10 the board Of health
and lodged 4 complaint against Mr..
aoifmann's pet.
One Of ,JOI kos tricks Is to go out early
in tie morning and steal the pennies
which are placed in milk pitchers. and
another is to gather up letters which the
postmau leaves under the basement gates
near the monkeys home. Whether he
views the Italian ut the corner with in
stinctiye hatred or as natural friend il
. impossible TO say. but sure it Is that
1he, Joc.c0 wants peanut ora fiS he
makes 10 scruple of bagging one from
the stand. Another one OF JOcko's cum
ming ways is to stick his snoui into any
inviting bottle of milk or disi. of pud-
ding that is set out of back window to
cool, and then make his escape with his
stomach full of the delicacy.
Pending the result of the inquiry Mr..
Hoffmann is little anxious for fear the
health board may compel him to- i'm
prison his dear Jocko. But Jocko runs
about as usual with no fear for cOnse-
Quences 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 ques
ton the right of TIE health board to in
terfere in his case at all.-New Yorl
World.
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