The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01
TALES OF THE
UGLY BRASS LAMP
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS,
Author of yankee Entertainments" etc.
Copyright, 1903, by Charles Battell LOOMS.

brass lamp. In fact, the doughnuts
that had lain next it had been rather
brassy, but that only made them taste
the better to the boys. One doesn't
begin to dislike kerosene and brass
and other metals in his food until he
has left boyhood and all it's joys be-
hind him.
Harry took out the lamp, gave it a
few vigorous rubs with his cap and
the djinn whistled out of the neck
at lightning speed, only he looked
more like thunder than lightning when
trees
1 fancy he was not visible to ordi-
nary people or else the stout woman
who was pushing a baby carriage not
fifty feet away from him would have
noticed him. STILL a great many peo-
pie go through this world with their
eyes shut and she may have relied on
the baby carriage to prevent her from
humping into anything.
Good morning." said Harry to the
dJlnn. Il want a chimpanzee exactly
like the one in the monkey house and
just as smart and all dressed up
1t shall be even as you DESIRE" said
the dJinn and promptly vanished.
The next minute the boys saw the
form of a beautiful chimpanzee up
among the topmost branches of a
maple underneath which they were
standing.
Come here, old fellow" said Harry
ana the champanZee dived head fore
most, caught the lowest branch of the
maple and swung lightly to the
ground.
You're a beaut," said Harry.
Amt he a dandy?" said Arthur.
Arthur was in the habit of saying
amt although there is no such word
in the language.
But the chimpanzee certainly was a
dandy, for he was dressed in the very
latest fashion and carried a cane made
OF Japanese wood and with silver
handle curiously chased with pictures
or life in the jungle; not done by
mortal hands, but fashioned by the
dJinn in his moments of leisure. 1t
was beautiful cane and a beautiful
chimpanzee and Harry called him Jim
Pansy on the spot.
The boys and the monkey PLAYED
leapfrog along the paths and not any
| one whom they met noticed that the
short brown little fellow with them
was not person, but an animal. That
is, no one noticed it until they came
| TO a policeman, and he, after a keen
| glance at the monkey, set up shout:
The chimpanzee has escaped. Some
body catch him. He's escaped"
VI course Harry and Arthur were
in tits of laughter over this mistake.
but they both saw that they might get
a good deal of fun out of it, so they
let the policeman run bawling in one
direction while they, taking Jim's
paws, ran in the other direction along
a horseshoe path and shortly came on
a crowd of people who were after
| them.
That's the boy. He's stolen him. "
said the policeman, painting very hard
and most important looking individ-
ual called out to Harry:
You come back with the monkey
at once or I'll have you arrested"
For answer Harry told the monkey
to climb tree, and in jiffy he was
out of reach of everyone Then the
ldlotic policeman pulled a pistol and
actually shot at the chattering ami
NAL, although 1 am glad to say that
| his bullet did no more than cut off a
branch of the tree
The Important One told the police
man to stop firing and stepping I'D to
| Harry he said, Young man, did Won
let the chimpanzee out of the cage %
mo, I didn't. He belongs to me and
I'm taking him to my home in New
Jersey" said Harry.
AT this answer the crowd roared
1t was so manifestly absurd. Bows are
not in the habit of going around with