The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-09

| of a slave dhow! Packed by hundreds in the holds of ships, they are given l food, but no water. With the seeds of l typhoid we'll planted in their systems the wretched survivors of this bird hell reach the cold climate of Britain to die of consumption and fever after taxing for g. brief period the care and feelings | of their unlucky purchasers. Never again will I buy parrot that has not | been "personally conducted" from his own land, and advise all readers nev- CT to invest in a bird of unknown ante cedents.
 At Malta they brought a small lady, a green monkey, with a long tail. We named her Jean. She sat gibbering with rage and terror, chained up, but directly I appeared on board sprang into my arms and claimed her own sex's protection. It took to me at once, and she became our property living with us for some years, and eventually | dying of a very human" tumor; so said our doctor. There was a weird humanity about the little thing; she al- ways struck me as longing wistfully to be something more. She was temper some and impatient of contradiction, 1 like a spoiled child, and when thWarted | iabbered and stuttered at you, till on a 1 sudden, thinking better of it, she would spring to your arms and cuddle With | shut eyes, making coaxing noise. But soon, on the call of mischief's splr- it, she would again away.
 Mischief!-she was the spirit itself. | When out of a big cage in the work room where we kept her she was al ways on a chain. Her pet diversion was to frisk innocently with kitten, or my poodle, and suddenly, with a whirl Of her whole self send books, chnia, everything off the nearest access sible table And the little brute was strong, too! Once left the room after chaining her to g. heavy chair. l heard crash, and returned to find the mis- creant had somehow dragged her chair to a table, caught the cloth and books, papers, inkstand lay on the floor, while Jean sat in a pool of ink chewing a quill, and growing sotto voce with de- light
 She bit freely, and most people who meddled with her-save my husband, whom she adored, and myself-suffered from those sharp little teeth. She dis liked children, and especially those with black stockings. Our friends didn't love her.
 Professor Blacl1ie was once staying with us. Getting warm on the subject -Socrates-he disregarded my anxious warnings, and prancing about in his excited fashion, got near the fender to which Jean was chained. She watched him with her sharp beady eyes for a l tboy, 6o for his legs. He changed the subject and his position-when I got her off.
 Jean loved to be taken walk down the garden wall on autumn evenings to stalk (and eat) daddy longlegs. She was very dexterous and nippy. When in real passion she was a shocking spectacle; she raved screeched, quiv- cred. and finally danced with fury, till, as if shocked at her own madness, she would rush and hide herself in our arms. She and the poodle had rare romps, generally ending in a. row. But poodle never hurt Jean; though that vixen tore his curls mercilessly. The monkey had horrid habit of nibbling her own tail-end, and we had to cut off the bitten bit till it's length was much diminished. Poor little stormy, cud- ding ape; we miss her yet, but will never replace her! One cannot teach them to be clean, and they are wildly mischievous.
 I remember prim and solemn butler exploding into laughter behind my chair when the small wretch, after
 watching me for a while suddenly clambered up clutched the wine-glass
 I was raising to my mouth, and drank
 out of 1t just as we would. In a few
 moments Jean was not quite sober!
 Once a brother of mine climbed tree
 on a lake-island to reach a squirrels
 nest, my father having got desperate
 at the damage these pretty mischiefs
 did to his woods. Four young squirrels
 jumped from the nest; he caught two !, and brought them home to me. One
 died but the other became a real pet , It would chamber all about us, and
 romp through the rooms as if they, and
 not the woods, were its habitat by na- ture. We got a squirrel cage for it, but 1 don't like the wheel; and I think il compels the animal to take more thar , enough exercise. "Scugg" was very fond of romping round a large dining room while we were at meals, provok- ing one to chase him. boting with 8 . whisk of his brush, and then rushing
 for refuge into the skirt of one's gown , | He would scramble up the cloth on tC the table, seize what pleased him, an6
 hide the remains of his bit of cucumber or celery in the chignons of the family heads. He loved climbing the curtains l to the cornices of very high windows and this, I fear, caused his death, fol r he once fell, and though at the time wt :, noticed not ing, he had injured his wet t leg, and q d some little time after. | I must have been very hard up for 2 | pet when choose a hedgehog. He wa. t l a mere infant when acquired him, ant soon ate from my hand, preferring, WI noticed, underdone game, and only ther F showed signs of ltveliness. He wa. l called "Agamemnon the Hedgepig," tt l give him distinction, as he had none O , his own Once was playing with hin = on the seashore, and bethought me O , l giving him wash in g. lovely clear poo : 1 of salt water. He swan out splendid ly, but, oh! the awful stench that came out with him! I looked everywhere fol
 the decomposing fish that must cause | it. But on trying the experiment a. sec