The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01
The Other Chimpanzee.


1t was the first day of the month
and Harry Mann's brass lamp had
power to summon the djinn who would
give to the boy two wishes. To-day
Harry intended getting all the fun
possible out of his possession of the
ugly brass lamp, and as it was Sat
urday he and Arthur Halstead went
up to the Bronx to see the animals,
taking the lamp along.
Arrived at the park the boys made
their way to the monkey house, not
because there were not other things
to see, but because they happened to
take the path that led to it. BY so
doing they missed seeing one of the
most amusing bears in captivity and
if any of you boys who live near the
Bronx have not seen him l advise you
to go up next Saturday. He is simply
immense-as to size, 1 mean-and he
can do more funny things in five min
utes than most humans can do in a
week of Sundays-unless they are golf
players.
But Harry and Arthur got into the
monkey house and there they stayed,
fascinated with the doings of the sad
looking little inhabitants.
"Ho," said Harry, there's one that
looks just like your Uncle Jack"
Cousin Paul"
He does not" said Harry, firing
Immediately, although why he did I'm
sure l don't know, because it's just
as bad to tell fellow his uncle looks
like monkey as it is to be told your
cousin looks like one. 1t only shows
that 1t makes a difference which foot
the shoe is on.
There was one little fellow with the
thinnest gray cheeks and the most
melancholy eyes and the saddest lit
tie cry, who put his paw out to Harry
in hope that he would receive a pea
| nut, although he might have noticed
the sign that forbids feeding the ami
mails. But then some monkeys only
notice the things they want to notice;
and all he thought of was food. Still
Harry who had noticed the sign
slipped a peanut into the monkey s
| hand and the act suggested to him
that he summon the djinn and get a
| monkey just like the little fellow.
That would be silly" said Aruthr
You can buy them by the dozen
down town. My father knows where
they are sold. Why don't you get 6
tiger or something big?"
The next minute they both uttered
| shrieks of delight, for they had come
| to the cage of the chimpanzee and
| it being o'clock, he was eating his
| dinner and using a knife and fork as
well as a man and a napkin better
than child, and altogether he look
| ed so much more human than a great
many people that Harry called out to
| Arthur, who had become separated il
| the crowd that was pressing toward
| his cage:
That's the one I want
Mamma, buy me that" Knocked the
| derisive voice of a street urchin and
| the crowd laughed, but Harry did not
| mind the laughter. He knew how
| valuable the monkey was, for as soon
as he saw him he remembered having
read about him in the Sunday papers.
He waited until the chimpanzee had
ended his meal and then he grabbed
| hold of Arthur's sleeve and the two
boys went out of the monkey house
and over to a little piece of woods
where they were to a certain extent
shielded from observation.
The boys had brought their lunch
in a large paper bag, but they had
eaten all in the monkey house-or per-
haps it would be more exact to say
that they and the monkeys had
eaten it,
At the bottom of the bag lay the