The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-19

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Mortimer Mansell In Chambers Journal.
mrs. TR[NAINE' MONKEY
= Il WONDER said; is. i MAS looking
out of the window of Jack Trevor's lodg
ings, ''why that girls rushing zip the.
street without her hut S :s.,=. E. s
''Ahf' he said, coming to the window,
ing the monkey, I expect she misses Inc
now sometimes: You didn't see which
way 1t went, did you?"
hunting monkeys?" &c ..<<
Only the monkey" he replied. Il
used to do it once" >..v-... T.
Dear met" l said. ITS fashion,
able amusement in the neighborhood,
then?" - ,e~,> i !
"No," he answered mournfully. II
was engaged to that girl once, and TINT
beast Of >; monkey broke the engage
"Were YOU, :, I asked, "cut out by the
"A man,, he said, "must be very,
very young to make Il remark like that = :
who il she7'' / inQuired. e.
oh, she's Miss Tfehaihe,"" he said.
'1'll tell you the story, if you like. It
will be. ii, warming to you never to get
"a PRESENT. said, stiRere t Is H ny Girl
Of the sort iii iHe minds eyic, but It's
better to be prepared for all emergen~
cies:" -" s.. -, u -.
II got engaged to Miss Treniaine."
he said, "about three years ago: l inet
her at the tennis club mid dahcts and
around the place generally here, but |
had never seen much of her at home,
and was unaware even of the mon
keys existence. AS soon as we were en-
was small monkey. of ordinary appear
ance, and was not at first sight prepos-
sessinE, but in the Tfnn1alne household
he was /: family FETCH. It's curious to
notice the dominant influence in differ
ent families. Sometimes it's the baby,
sometimes the butler, sometimes a first
husbands memory, and sometimes the
reigned supreme. Capt. Tremaine, who
was dead, had bought the beust, and it
was concerned in teuehing dpathbed
svehp or sbmething of the kind. At any
rate, Mrs. Tremaine regarded it as a
sacred relic of the dear deceased, and
lavished all her love and affection on it.
l we'll remember the first night l saw
JACKIE, and discovered the habit that
eventually wrecked an engagement. It
to Maud the desirability Of opening Il
window. ..Oh. nos she sdid I'VE never
cab have the windows open i'll the even
ing. .Jacko would get out My first
hint of Jacko's habits was enlarged by
Mrs. Tremaine's frequent and objection
able intrusions to enquire as to the
beasts whereabouts. A man in the first
rapture of an engagement naturally dis
likes the inrushes of some one else i'll
pursuit of monkey. The next morn
ing the nuisance increased. A servant
came round-they live few doors from
hereto tell me that Jacko had just es-
capped, and would I help to- catch him
| found him about lunch time, aud over
hauled him after long and exciting
chase As seemed obvious, caught him
by the tail, ahd the brittle bit ihe and
Treniaine explained reproachfully that
,Jacko- always bit people who touched his
tail 4 .s>-. 49,. -
!. .'For some months Jacko continued to
be 4 nuisance at home and abroad.
When he escaped, which he managed to
do about once a week. I was expected
to secure him. This generally happened
open and the trudesmen We're chilling,
and at first on these occasions / did not
reach chambers till the afternoon, AZ.
terward I became quite I'm atlupt ut
catching him. His plan IF ediiipaiEii
was to wait till his iNrster Mas Quite
close aiid theh jGinb about twenty yttrds.
| bought a large butterfly net with a
long handle. and he never got the hang
Of that. When l had discovered this
I l,>
but waited with dread for the time
when JACKIE should escape after dark,
and l should be compelled to hunt for
the brute through the watches of the
night Oh the peril of losing the regard
of the Tremaine family. Jacko's no.
madic habits We're. L may explain, at
tributed to desire to find his dead
master. At last the event that dread
ed occurred. One cold winters evening
>Jacko disappeared while the cook was
interviewing her favOrite policeman at
the back door, and got we'll away. The
cook received a months notice on the
spot, and | was at once put OH the track
of the animal. Mrs. Trenaine was
much annoyed because wished to put
my boots OH before starting, and even
Maud seemed only anxious for the mon
three or. four miles Of streets, expert
enced what at first regarded as unex-
pected good luck. The brute came tear
ing round a corner and in second he
was in the butterfly net. l was just
preparing to return, elated that the run
had been so numerically cut short,
when a crowd also came round the cor
ner headed by an angry and breathless
ton of events, The Italian could not
speak much English, but gathered that
he claimed Jacko as his monkey, his
carrissiAil0 monkey. The crowd. who
had become excited in the chase. and
who imagined that was attempting to
cheat poor, ignorant foreigner out Of
his only solace in a strange land, de-
manded that should give the monkey
sacred animal spent the night in the
possession of ~ail untrustworthy Italiu1l
rose before my eyes,, and [ distinctly
declined to relinuuish JACKIE
In the course of conversation with
the crowd I lost my temper and con
siderable portion of my CLOTHES, and by
the time that a policeman arrived,
III conveying Jacko, the Italian and me
to the police station. There I spent a
most miserable night. Ny utmost en-
treaties failed to induce the police to
send to Mrs. Tremaine to bail me out.
| think their malevolence was prompted
by the policeman who had been so rude
~ interrupted i'll his trvst with the cook.
In the morning we: appeared before
his worship. The Italian and 1 were
charged with creating a disturbance, and
assaults, and breaches Of the peace, AID
that kind of thing, and, as far as re-
member, the police threw in a charge
Of drunk and disorderly against me. His
Worship asked to see the monkey. aud
when they brought him in, 10 and be-
hold, there were two Jackos. =, 49,.
After some explanation the magis-
tra 11 dismissed the charges against us
cusable mistake. And: indeed, it was
most excusable: Apparently the Italian
had really lost his monkey, and whether
it was his monkey or .Jacko that he had
been pursuing when encountered it, |
do not know to this day. At all events,
the police had captured the other mon
key during the night, and had shut the
two up together. There they sat. two
ugly, grinning indistinguishable crea-
lures, both guilty, according to the evil
dence, of aggravated assaults on the