The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-21
SONNY BOY AND
THE CH|MPANzEE
Great Pals Are The Small Boy
and One Of Best Known
Animals in N, Y. Zoo.
tNew York "fierald.p

There IS a little boy Of New Yark
city whose small feet have barely mas
tered the business of walking aud
whose busy tongue still trips adurably
over his c~onsonants Who is the CHIEF
chum and playmate Of a chlmpanzsc
as big as himself.
The little chap is Stanley Cl.sby Ar
thur, Jr.-Sonny Boy for Io.e-aad
the chimpanZee is Badly adrred OF AL
youngsters and one OF the best known
animals III the New York Z~oylcs.cal
Park. From the time sonny Boy
arrived at thu sit-up-an-take-notice
age has has been = constant visitor
TO the 200, cooling and Growing at the
Wild animals from the laces and fuffs
OF his perambLlator and ESTABLISHING
"a camaradorie and good fellowship
With each and every one OF them, and
which even Sultan. the majestic lion.
recognizes with a sort Of kinSly con
d~eScenSion.
Badly, who can do almost anything
but talk and who is the admiration ~
every small visitor TO the zoo. singled
out Sonny Boy for his particular
friend and would whoop with JOY and
cut caperS OF delight whenever the
dimpled face Of his little playmate APP
peared among those ~ the many chill
dren who crowded the aisles OF tn.
Primate House. Badly would thrust
n long. hairy arm between the bar.
lot his Gag and. chattering rapidly
in a tongue which sonny Boy seem
ed to understand perfectly, the two
would shake hands and say things TO
each other that both appeared to find
amazingly interesting.
AS time passed on and tho intimacy
~A IN-1j I4
keepers in the Primate House. would
frequently take Badly from his Gag.
and in a room shut of from the rest
Of the place sonny Boy" and the biz
ape would roll and ronp all Owe tho
floor together. When Sonny Boy
began to find his feet and daily grew
more proficient in the art Of balanc-
ing himself upon these ridiculous pink
eXtremitieS he and Badly would wall
hand in hand about the zoo. ~visitinA
the different cages and e&changinf
greetings with all the other animals
They were familiar sights to the greai
white polar bear, the hipnopotamus
the hon, the WalruS-in fact, every
animal in the ZOO, from the Ions neck
ed giraffe To h dumb little dingo
hailed them joyfully with srunts 81
grouls, according to the nature o.
the beast.
In all their ramblcs Badly was IN,
ifailinSly Watchful of his little charg,
Sometimes on these occasions keepei
Fred would dress Badly up IN a nliaia
ture keepers uniform, which tn
Ichimpanzee donned with prodigjouI
, pride ana which he specially liked L
wear in with his little play
mate.
; BY the time sonny Boy could us
! his tongue as welkas his feet he kneS
all the animals by the names tnei
keeper had given them. He woul
call the Appropriateness Pete the H
raffe Romeo the wart dog "Clar
,ence," the lion sultan" the bufal
l'Sitting Bull the polar bear "Silve
king" the grizzly Engineer and IN
walrus Flip And although AM
mails are not supposed TO talk any
: body believed in fairies could readil
have converted certain sruntS an
. growls into something that SouHdc
Remarkably like Sonny Boy"
Not many boys and girls IN IN
jcountry have had the opportunity
S study natural history in the way ths
Sonny Boy has, h vas born s
close to the big iron fence that shu'
in the animals OF the UeW York Zo'
illogical Park. But his own emar
BILE opportunities have been made tf
subiect Of a book in pictures and YER
which IS called Sonny Boys Day
l. .he Zoo" The jingies are by FL
: Bentley Arthur, and the picture
> which are actual photographs, are
y iStanley Clisby Arthur. ST..