The news & observer., 1904-09-11

took the place of the pandemonium
that had so recently reigned. Happily
had not brought the dinner in when
the riot began, so that still there was
some comfort left. Making haste !
supplied the food, and soon they We're
all busy with it, their dinner houl
being nearly gone. The punishment OF
the miscreant was unavoidably de-
ferred for want of time to look for
him, for he had vanished like a
dream
But while we ate a sudden storm OF
bad language rose on deck. HurryinS
out to see what fresh calamity had
befallen, we found the niger cook
flingng himself about in a frenzy OF
rage, while halfway up the mainstay
well out of everybodys reach, sat
Jocko with a fowl that he had snatch
ed out of the galley while the cook S
back was turned and was now care
fully tearing into fragments. Rushing
20 the stay the men shook it till the
whole mainmast vjbrated, but the mo-
lion didn't appear to trouble the
monkey. Holding the fowl tightly in
)ne hand, he bounded up into the
maintop and thence to the nizzen top
mast, where for the time he had to be
left in peace.
AS soon as knock-off time came q
hunt was otganized. 1t was a very
exciting affair while it lasted, but not
only were the men tired, but that
monkey could spring across open
spaces like a bird and catching him
vas an impossible task. The attempt
vas soon given up therefore, and the
rest of the evening after supper was
devoted to repairing damages.
For the next three days she was n
lively ship. That imp of darkness was
"a yXNG \, fsN
like a streak of gray lightning he
would slide down stay snatch VI
something just laid down and away
iloft again before the robbed one
'ailiZed what had happened. All sorts
If traps were laid for him, but he was
ar too wise to be taken in any trap
hat was ever devised.
| was in terror of him night and
lay, for / feared that now he was
rec he would certainly not omit to
tepay me for his broken pate. And
yet it was l who caught him. For
he moment | had forgotten all about
him. when coming from aloft ana
iropping lightly with my bare feet
upon the bottom of one of the upturn-
ed boats on the roof of our house /
saw something stirring in the folds of
the main-tOpmaSt StaySail that was
lying there loosely huddled together
screamed for help, bringing half a
dozen men to the spot in "a twinkling.
Not without some severe bites was
the rascal secured and, by means of a
stout belt round his waist. effecually
prevented from getting adrift again.
looked to see him summarily put to
death, but no one seemed to think
his atrocious behavior merited any
worse punishment than a sound
n y, L.
ard, and they, being our natural enc
mics were, of course, unheeded. The
fact is Jocko had, after his first per-
formance, confined his attentions to
the cabin and galley, where he had
done desperate damage and made the
two darkies lead q most miserable
life. This conduct of his, / believe
saved his lfe as those two functiona-
ries were cordially detested by the
men for many reasons AT any rate
he was spared. and for some time led
a melancholy life chained up on the
forecastle, mead during the day and
underneath il at night.
Meantime We had sailed from Bonn
bay and arrived at Conconada, where
the second mate bought a monkey, g
pretty tame little fellow that hadn't
a bit of vice in him. He was so docile
that when we got to sea again he was
Petted by everybody, he never got into
any mischief but often used 20 come
forward and sit at a safe distance
from Jocko, making queer grimaces
and chatterings at him, but always
mighty careful not to get too near.
Jocko never responded, but sat stolid-
ly like a monkey of wood until the
little fellow strolled away, when he
would spring up and tear at his chain
q hat 1nI
as much like an Arab cursing as any
thing ever l heard.
SO little Tip went on his pleasant
way, only meeting with one small
mishap for a long. time. He was sit
ting on deck one sunny afternoon with
his back again the coamings of the
after hatch, his little round head just
visible above it's edge. One of the
long-legged, raw-boned roosters we
had got in Conconada was prowling
near on the never-ending quest for
grub. Stalking over the hatch he
suddenly caught sight of this queer
little gray knob sticking up. He stiff
fened himself: craned his neck for
ward, and then drawing we'll back
dealt it a peck like a miniature pickax
falling. Well, that little monkey was
more astonished than ever | saw an
animal in my life. He fairly screamed
VIII rage Wnlte the rooster SlCOQ as II
petrified with 'astonishment at tho
strange result of his Investigations
Owing to the close watch kept upon
Jocko he led q blameless life for
months. Apparently reconcfled to his
captivity he gradually came to be re-
garded as 4 changed animal who had
repented and forsaken his evil ways
for life. But my opinion of him never
changed. 1t was never asked, and j
knew better than to offer it. but there
was a lurking devil in his sleepy eyes
that assured me if ever he got loose
again his previous achievements
would pale into insignificance before
the feats of diabolical ingenuity he
would then perform. Still the DAYS
and weeks rolled by uneventfully un-
til we We're we'll into the fine weather
to the north'ard of the Line in the
Atlantic.
We had been exceptionally favored
by the absence of rain, and owing to
the exeI tions of the second mate. who
was an enthusiast over his paint work.
her bulwarks within and her
houses were a perfectly dazzling
white, with a satiny sheen like en-
amel. In fact, l heard him remark
with pardonable pride that he'd never
seen the paint look SO well in all
his seven voyages as second of the
Belle. Tenderly, as il it We're his
wife's face, he would go over that