Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-03-19
A PET AND A NUISANCE
sockO IN DISREPUTE WITH THE NEW YORK HEALTH BOARD.

Tightrops of Mrs. Kaufman's Clothes line, Picks Putty Ont of a skyiight and
 Steals Pennies and MIX.
 For two years now Jocko has been | having things pretty much his own way
 in a back yard in East Fourth street. But at last he has run up against snag. I Doubtless if Jocko had been content | with his own back yard and had not gone about prowling for new back yards to 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 nomadic proclivities ur molested or whether in the future he is
 to be chained to ring in the area steps. Jocko is the pet monkey of Josef Hof-
 mann, who does brisk business in the
 basement at 37 East Fourth street. A sea captain, who Lad come home from a voyage to South America for cocoanuts,
 brought back Jccko with him, and gave the animal to MT. Hoffmann. If Jocko had stuck his long, sharp claws into Mir.
 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
 passed 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- hating in the back yard, 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 at 6 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 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 tightrope walker, Jocko tripped along the line. He put up one paw to his whisker. just as the real performer does when he smirks and throws ths 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 |al.r.ihros.t. Her ta5lecloths and sheets,
 -rert trey were not torn in places, were ;rS-''-eI n pattern in which the chief
 ign, VII. .e imprint of muddy paw
 ;O:--. .,: hcr linen was actually missing
 IT, .,uf"rn hal to get up early the
 rx; rni:S again. pull out her thread
 .:.i .s.-..!l'- and. after mending for al
 .;.. :.-. .-,.r d.. hcr whole wash over.
 Eu' -lss.rI r,Ter ran amuck among
 'Af-~ --si'tA AAtstAI ~ ntNNAl any AlOIC. I1C
 iai e.; r.,nced new sensation, and
 .avIl7 J,icr satisfied himself with that ne began tn cast about for fresh fields and pastures new Of course, if he wanted to make use of Mrs. Kaufman's or any other persons convenient lines, JockO never hesitated to nse them as a public thoroughfare. But as diversion. clotheshnes had lost their seductive charms for the monkey.
 THE LATTER PROTESTS.
 So while looking about another morn ing for something ''new and strange" he clambered up on to the roof of the ex. tension built out from hat store on the Bowery. The skyhght 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 JOcko's instinctive feeling vf dis | like for the Lyman family asserted itself | The next day and the next Jocko quietly | perched himself on the rim of the sky | light over the extension of the natter | and began picking away the pntty about | the panes. But Jocko had not progressed | far in his operations before he was found out Then MT. Hyman's patience gave out, for he saw his living apartments threatened with leak. He was not as as 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 to the board of health and lodged a complaint against Mir. Hofmanns pet.
 One of JOcko's tricks is to go out early in the morning and steal the pennies which are placed in milk pitchers, and another Is to gather up letters which the postman leaves under the basement gates near the monkeys home. Whether he views the Italian at the corner with in- ;tinctiye hatred or as a natural friend it s impossible to say. but sure It Is that when Jocko wants a peanut or fig he makes no scruple of bagging one from he stand. Another one of Jocko's cun- ling ways is to stick his snout into any inviting bottle of milk or disk of pud ling that is set out of back window to ;ool, and then make his escape with his stomach full of the delicacy.
 Pending the result of the inquiry Mir. doHmann is little anxious for fear the health board may compel him to im- prison his dear Jocko. But Jocko runs bout as usual with DO fear for conse- luences at all One shake of his right ,aw against his left whisker fixed" the anitary inspector. And if that was not uffcient Jocko knows enough to ques ion the right of the health board to in- erfere in his case at all.-New Yorb World