The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-19

,atcd by the DiminutlVe Chimpanzee
charley snyder Gets Sailor Brown
M. Blight Through a Half
Hitch.
,u, York. July 16.-Ever since
most diminutive of chimpan-
arrived at the Bronx Zoo on Sum-
zo,. and tied himself in a reef knot
AND having taken a reef in himself,
t,~oo an inkwell at the keeper. the
,:t+I, beast has been a cause of solicit
f., curator Ditmars and Charley
rn+.4ar and every one on the premises.
1Ta.h aav Blazes has beer tying him
daIf into more and more intricate
,nots He had gotten out of them all
H,foIv: Inv his own unaided efforts until
oartar,f+v. when he tied himself in q
TTrnnjng bowline and almost noosed
himself to death.
# would have been a. suicide with
o,t 50 parallel in history, as Charley
c1vder observed regretfully to the
nnvenaDer men afterward, but Blazes
Is 81 Valuable thai the Zoo keepers did
not feel they could stand the fnan-
cial loss involved. Therefore they
cctn4iad and studied how to unite the
ohm IA NEE IIbIl l1it hhO ltlo i1ISIi
~ had turned himself, and finally,
working under the direction of Sailor
Proon an old time hand on square
riggers. they did it.
T. couldn't have been much alter 2
O'Clock yesterday afternoon that n
of the Q in the money house
came running into h snake house
and ND to Charley Snyder, alarm in
avery lineament Of his countenance.
.:.l Fs--D1f ipt~ n 1--oA
and is slowly choking to DEATH" said
The white-faced keeper. Charley shy
der. who was busy ~unraveling a gar
ter snake and who had his daily job Of
straightenirg out all the big reptiles
ahead ar him. looked annoyed.
ago unknOt him." he retorted.
eli oarn't," the keeper made n
swer drought up in London Hi
were and never made no voyages deep
sea. Hi seen this knot afore, but Hi
carn't sir. unite it"
tha coils Of the baby boa constructor,
Charley snyder hurried into the mon
key house. He took one loo at
Blaze and said:
why, that's nothing but a running
bOwline. That's easy. I've untid a
bOWline many times. The Borneo tree
snakn is always tying himself into neat
b0wlines, and when I unite him, TAX
ing a turn and a half hitch around his
pedestal and Kissing at me. This IS
a cinch.' And he set to work.
After fifteen minutes labor Charley
Snyder said dOubtfully:
This running bovine he's tied
himself in seems harder to loose than
q snakes. You see a snake is perfect
~ smooth twisted rope and just Of the
requisite f!eXibility. But Blazes here
is humpy, with a head and a stomach.
Now let me see, let me see"
Mr.. Snyder pOndered several min
utes and then asked the Cockney keep
er if he a seen Blazes tie himself
up and how he did it.
First replied the keeper, as he
carefully ndexeG his memory with his
1oreinger on his brow, first e took
a turn around is branch with the tip
OF is tail. Then e took a turn around
IS tail with is body. Their e looped
is body and passed is cad hup
through the loop and hover and down
hu1d@r the turns and all and back
throuGh the loop and drew 'isself taut.
Ihen ." were in a oos which slid
along is tail and e got is head in the
nooS" and swung isSelf down and the
me moose tightened, and there e are,
ROUTE right" murmured Charley
.'J'Si YOU merely state my con-
repnon of the present situation as
well as my conception for nothing for
d money to bring to pass. Kindly cali
up Pop fuckers sailors boarding
mouse and No Stumgullion for Supper
F@h,rh is on South street. You will
anu IL IN the telephone directory IN
4ei me name of 'Enos fuckers Hotel
LOT Heataring Men,"
Ee We're most unCivil," he said in
Gn>"'f to Mr.. Snyders look of anxious
t'Qu'ry- Said Sailor Brown would be
tup as soon as they could hinduce I'm
of Iioe m the subway. Said the crew
~ S"e bark Wanderer 'ad just bee
p OIL with the tops'l sheet and was
sn ,@Pny in conscience. but e would
GepI sailor Brown hup just as soon as
-, 7o beaten i'm insensible for calling
- II nlork off'n a a%ndybilly."
id one time Sailor Brown appear
If mhat was you all goin' for to want
raaH IT. he demanded. Ere were I
hoen? Iof to take an ambulance to an
Tn@nILIIaI arter a little row with Pop
go ~hNer an had to let the ambulance