Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-05
SURGERY FOR KANAWHA MONK
Plaster Cast on JOckO Comes on
when His Fellow Similar
Gets Hold.


Bill Finnegan was sitting on the Ka-
nawhas foo'se head, waiting TO hear the
dinner gong He wondered what had be-
come of JACKIE, the companion OF his woes
and pleasures and then remembered that
JACKIE had gone OF in the company of the
second mate and the auartermaster. While
he was wondering little party marched
aboard, and presently JACKIE hoped up
beside his playmate,
Jacko hoped because one OF his legs was
In plaster. Some people would have called
It Jacko's left forearm, but Bill knew
better, 1t was a leg. all right, no matter
what Mr. Darwin may have thought
What's on your Lego says Finnegan.
Lemur catta and all as he is. JaclEo can
| tell a good monkey story. He told Bill
about the house, just up the street from
the pier TO which he had been carried by
Second Mate Chapman and ouartermaster
Rush.
believe me. Bill" he began, they
didn't have Il all their own way You
were downstairs when they collared me.
or else you'd have seen the struggle put
| up. But what can one poor little 9-months-
old ring-tailed South American monkey,
| even II do belong to one OF the oldest
| families in the late empire, do when four
husky sailors grab him and march away?
! They've got a couple Of scratches to re-
member me by, though, and I-guess they're
not looking for the same job again.
We'll. they got me up there to that big
place, Bellevue. There was a lot OF fuss
ing and a big man they called Holbrook
examined my leg. The quartermaster told
him the lid OF the rope box fell on It,
Then a couple OF other men in white coats
came in, with queer names, like Kempf and
I,NW A-aA WI
they called a consultation over me.
"One of them, noticed, turned up his
nose at treating monkey as he called
me, and felt like reminding him who
was, and telling him why they call you
| Finnegsn. But Mr.. Rush whispered where
we came from and told them | was the
particular pet of Henry II. Rogers They
didn't believe 1t for minute, but as soon
as they found out I was from the Ka-
nawha they showed me the most particula r
attentions.
II didn't know what was up; and when
they got to foolng with my leg and telling
one another that the shoulder bone was
broken and would have to be set | got
sort OF nervous. You would yourself,
Bill"
Bill scratched his hack editatively and
looked very solemn. 60 on" he said.
| "NlAt " "de no use nHHtlnEt InOuRn
did my best. They held me down and put
some queer sort OF a thing over my head
that made me dizzy and sick. But il was
worth II, Bill. I'd almost like to go through
II all over again for what happened then
Say, Bill, you remember when we were kids
down by the Orinoco? And how we used to
play in the rubber trees and down in the
cocoanut grover"
Bill Finnegan remembered.
WELL say, II all came back 10 me then
l thought / was down there again and run,
ming swinging races with you. And all
through the air there seemed to be fioatina
the queerest kind Of Jungle music, not bill
like that In the saloon downstairs Great
peanuts. but 1t was grand / wonder how
they did that to me. ia go back tonight
II l thought they'd do il again. Anyway
they fixed me up without my knowing Il
for you can bet two oranges I'd never have
let them strap me this way II / hadn't beer
dreaming of home. And when / woke VI
they carried me down here again, and her,
l am again. Bill, but tied up like one OF
those kids we saw aboard after the
Fourth"
whats that thing for2" asked BIZ, pick
ing at the bandages.
Il don't know but It feels awful queer
Like as II / had stone leg"
Lets feel g." murmured Bill, and with
couple of sharp tugs he laid bare tn,
plaster Of paris cast
You'd better not keep that on there" HI
remarked sagely. "Itll make your Les
bald"
Holy cocoanuts, you don't mean that p
queried JACKIE anxiOusly.
II saw a man like that once. He was ~
bed. with white thing on his head. anC
when he took II on he hadn't a hair left.
, went on the uncomforting Bill
, Take IL on, Bill, take IL on! Don't stant
there chattering like a man. Pull II on
D'you think / want TO have no hair on m!
lego"
J And between them they pulled on tn
bandages. stripped on the plaster ana lef