The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-07

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 acter. for Kaiu was the sweetest-tem- pered of slaves and playfellows to him. When Jeremiah's master was moving from one, station to another the mon key. then quite a young thing. was sent to march with the syces and the horses. and a new English dog-cart It wns thought that In the latter Jeremiah might ride. as his tender years seemed to unit him for a long march. How ever he had not gone far before two buttons were twisted of the cushions. hole bitten in the cloth, and the mon- keys little hand busiiy engaged In drawing out handfuls of the stufftlng. Jeremiah was therefore condemned to walk. and very weary little monkey. dusty and thirsty, arrived at the end of the long days march. And appar- ently-for one can only guess at the miah thought 1t over. and decided 1t was not good enough.
 He was we'll ana amply supplied with food and the men noticed that he chose black dog out of the crowds that hung about the camp. and offered 1t part of his evening meal. The next day the dog followed the march, and the monkey. beguiling him within reach of his cEain. jumped on his back. a proceeding the dog in no way resented. Every day the same thing was repeat ed, and Jeremiah rode the whole of the remaining eighty miles, the syces being highly delighted at his sharpness. At night Jeremiah fed Kalu with part of his own supper, and slept curled up near his friend. The two had game of play in the morning and as soon as the march began, Jeremiah, apparently to the perfect satisfaction of the dog. mounted his steed as matter of course.
 When they reached their destination, Kalu was at once adopted into the fam fly, and was committed to the care of the dog boy and allowed a regular ration like the other dogs. He rapidly grew sleek; and with his soft, brown eyes, his keen. long face and black coat, he was by no means bad-looking- thus giving another instance of the well known beautifying effects of pros- perity. Though Kalu became attached to his master, his friendship for Jere miah never wavered, and as strict or ders had been given that the two friends were not to be.interfered with, they slept and played and fed together as before.
 At last a tragedy separated them. Kalu, though fat and sleek, and wear ing a collar that marked him as pri- vate property, was an unmistakable l Do orio nd i,,cf oh ha ft,,,o ish and cruel custom had arisen in the station of shooting these animals, whose services were really valuable as scaven- gers. The nominal reason for this was that the barking of stray dogs was an- moving at night; the real one, that to l shoot few pariahs afforded pleasant variation to the monotony of the sub alterns' Sunday. So poor Kalu met his fate, which neither 8 collar nor his many virtues could avert from him. Sad tesrelate, Jeremiah showed no sor- row for the death of his friend. It is true he could not have looked sadder than he did before, but he did not ap- |parently miss his playfellow and inn mediately turned his attentions to teas ing Dash, the English spaniel Now, Dash was extremely careful of his dig nifty, which was terribly outraged by Jeremiah, At afternoon tea-time Jere- miah was generally set free, as then his friends could look after him, and he was always given some cake and bread and butter as his share of the meal. The cake was too nice to be wasted, so Jeremiah ate as much as he could and filled his pouches with the rest. The bread and butter. however, was reserved for the humiliation of poor Dash. Jeremiah would advance in an engaging manner, holding a large and wellrbutteced piece of bread towards Dash's nose. The dog would try to ig- nore his enemy, knowing that it was unlawful to attack him; but at last, overcome by the smell of the food, would make dart at it, and in a mo- ment Jeremiah executed a somersault over his back, pulling or biting his tail on the way. Then, Dash growled and snapped; but his enemy was already seated on the curtain pole or some other place of vantage, from which he was looking amiably down at the sufferer
 Jeremiah, came into the possession of the writer about the time when the late Professor Romahes' book on Animal Intelligence" was published, and the monkey was carefully watched to dis cover, if possible, both the extent and limits of his intelligence. His mind was certainly full of thoughts, but these were malevolent and mischievous ones. No trace of that elementary mor- al sense which dogs show could be de- tected in him. No doubt he was capa- ble of passionate affection; but, 50 far as could be observed, it was purely a selfish love. A cowardly, greedy little animal, he. recognized there were peo- pie with whom he was safe, and who were sure to feed him. He was afraid of punishment, but his fear was very } like the conscience of some people it acted too late to prevent him from doing what he knew he ought not; or rather, as in human beings, the desire ,, in the present was stronger than any fear in the future. VI! >"3 .$'
 Jeremiah.s exit was worthy of hi. ' career. Once more his master was on !. the move, and he had decided to give the monkey away instead of taking him [ with him. As he went out to mount his >A<v>A<v>A<v>A>v>A>v>