The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-16
THE STORY OF JOCK,

Central Parks Best and Funniest Litfis
Monkey Writes u Letter About Hin
self
Whew! it's almost too hot to write
letters, even il my little friends are
anxious to hear from me.
Ihave been so very busy doing things
that l ought not to that have just
found time to tell you about myself.
You see am shut up here in largo
cage all the time and never have q
chance to get away and run up into the
trees as would like to, but will not
complain, as there are some monkeys
who have to work for living, while
all do is to enjoy myself
am very glad that 1 am not hand
organ monkey that has to wear funny
clothes and have string to his neck
all the time. should get awfully
tired If thought was Obliged to pick
up pennies and travel around on
squeaky old organ all these hot days
What do l do all the time
I'll tell you one thing that did this
morning. A gentleman came into the
house to see me, and, OF course, l
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 minute found it
was all full Of pepper. / didn't say
anything, but went out near the gen.
tleman again and put out my hand to
him. He thought didn't know of the
joke he tried to play on me, SO he came
close up to the cage, and in a second
had his watch out of his pocket and
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 he
might see it.
Oh! how cross that man was. l
thought he would shoot me. but he
didn't; he just clinched his hands and
stamped and said things. Then he
went out after the keeper, and while
he was gone I 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 The
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 l 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 a mischievous
, monkey never would have had to live
: up here behind the bars.
remember once when belonged to
q 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.
q One day the old lady took a nap and
). left me unclaimed in the sitting-room
9 Well, pulled nair out of the cat, pulled
9 plants out of the pot, stuck pins into
n oil paintings, scared the parrot most tc
death and had quiet time generally
n Then l began to feel lonesome, ant
q wanted some fun, SO ! went into tn
n bedroom where my mistress was ant
thought would pull her hair.
dumped up on the bed, took hold o
a her hair and gave one pull, and what d
u you think, every hair that she had Of
r her head came of, leaving her head a
E smooth as the back of her hand.
s Igave cry, dropped the wig over tn
old lady's face and ran. Then hear
q somebody shout Murder! Police! Fire
s and when l peeped into the bedroor
again, there was my mistress struggling
q on the bed and half smothered by tina
heavy wig. She thought somebody wa
y trying to kill her.
IL That was about all the fun had tina
week. l had my chain shortened an
u lived on bread and water for awhile
and the cats would laugh at me ever.
time they went by.
wonder why it's naughty to enjo
yourself. ] don't think of anythin
more now.
My! there's little boy with bag G
peanuts. Hooray! Goodbye. jock, i