The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-05-08

he told the tall white creature that they were now
III the place to find the monkeys.
Il don't want any of them shot spoke the
"mte creature III the same peculiar tongue
ployed by the black leader guide Il want them
taken without wound, for as have told YOU. they
are to be used for show purposes. They will be put
III cages and carried all over the world"
Although the black guide did not seem to quite
understand what show or a cage or 'all over the
world meant, he did understand that monkeys were
the object of the hunt through the forest and that
they-the monkeys-must not be injured in any
way.
well get EN- with our traps" explained the
guide So the white man (for of course you have
understood that the tall creatures walking on long
straight legs were mem said that just what he
wanted.
Then the group of black men-with one white
man in their midst-stood directly underneath the
tree in whose branches Squnkle was hiding. And
Squinllie. being warrior bold, looked about for
some dead bits of branches that he might break off
easily to be thrown on the heads of his enemies
should they look up and behold him there.
As he was securing a stick-for close
at hand-he one of the black men look up into
the very branches where he was perched. Then such
a shout went up from the whole band of black crea
lures and they began TO climb the trees surrounding
Squlnkle going up them with the agility of mon
keys themselves. Squinkle understood his danger.
but never lost his head He grasped the loose dead
llp' tearing IL from llS pace Hufleu IL lulO
the very center of the group of long-egged beings
below. howl of rage and pain went up from the
man who was hit. 1t was the white and the
stick-thrown with such vehemence-had struck
him across the eyes and had broken the bridge OF
his nose.
OF course the blacks had to minister to their in
jured leader the mighty White Hunter who had
learned their tongue in order to enslave them and
to make them work for him. The guide bound up
the White Hunters injured face and they turned
about TO retrace their steps to the Black Mems vii
lage. where the white man would procure herbs and
dressing for his wound.
We'll come here in a few days and get that
very fellow that hurled the stick at me- declared
the White Hunter his anger at boiling heat. And
when get him. we'll kill him. that's the way we'll
put stop to his fighting with jagged sticks which
break mems noses and almost put out their eyes.
But Squinllle did not hear the White Hunters
threat against him. for he was making all possible
speed through the forest. leapng from branch to
branch. from tree to tree. with the rapidity of
bird the wing. and before the White Hunters
face had been wrapped in bandage torn from his
garments. Squinkle was far far out Of sight
of the place where the evil enemies had seen him.
And when, half hour later, Squinkle entered
the confines of his particular wood-where
great many monkeys dwelt-he went with all posi-
BILE speed TO his mother and told her the story of
his experience. OF course, his language was moi
very extensive and he had much difficulty IN
describing the tall creatures who had walked on the
ground their bodies so straight-just like certain
trees. and who had displayed notion to entrap him.
But he made her understand that there was great
danger threatening Monkeytown, and she was not
long in arousing all the monkeys, telling them that
they must fee, and flee at once, to some more
cuded place.
And that night. while the White Hunter rolled
and tossed on his pallet of pain i'll the Black Mems
village, Squinke and all his family and friends and
neighbors and acquantances were moving to the
southwark with all speed. and when the morning
dawned they had into a beautiful place sur
rounded by swamp where it would be almost i'm
possible for the foot of to tread for the jungle
that lay between the swamp and outer world was 81
dense that even a snake had difficulty in creeping
through
And to this day the natives of the Black Mems
village tell of the time. long, long ago when great
White Hunter came among them. and learned thel
tongue in so short a time, and gave them many
trinkets of shining things adorn themselves; and
that all he wanted was their assistance III catching
the monkeys that lived in the forest near to the vii
Iage But they shake their heads when they come
70 that part of the story where monkey hit the
great White Hunter across the nose and broke it
and how the injured man died of his wounds within
n few DAYS and was buried there at the outskirts OF
the village and how native of that village can
over be tempted to try to take into captivity the
monkeys And that is why in one part of Africa
Sauinkle and those of his own band were safe dur
ing their lives and even their descendants safe
from intrusion to this day.