The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-02
THREE MONKEYS c A

Here is a verbatim report of a cir
Gus mans exciting chase and cap
ture of three monkeys which had
escaped from the menagerie of John
Robinson's Ten Big Shows, which
will appear in Grenada, November
6, afternoon and evening. The mar
rator, an advance agent of John
Robinson's Ten Big Shows, was ad-
dressing a reporter of this news
paper.
Zone April day in a Missouri vii
lage, three monkeys escaped while an
animal man was cleaning q Gag in
the menagerie of John Robinson's
Ten Big Shows. The monks made
their get away at 1880 p. M, and
the animal mar whose duty it was to
look after them, took it upon himself
to round them up. 1t was impossible
for him to track them in the dark,
wherefore, he waited for daylight. l
stayed over with him. Next morning
Sweeney" THAT was his name), Sc
cured a shepherd dog and then the
hunt began in earnest. l remained
at the hotel in the village and Of
fered a reward of twenty-five dollars
to anybody who would capture the
monks for US.
After about three hours work
Sweeney discovered the animals in a
swamp about half a mile from town.
However, they were not to be easily
caught and, instead Of waiting for
Sweeney to come stealthily up and
grab them, they bounded away like
SO many rubber automatons. Per-
haps they thought they were acting
for some moving picture film manu-
facturer. Through the fields to the
road and subsequently down the pike
to town, ran the monks, the dog and
the mantle aforesaid Sweeney.
The monks hiked themselves to town,
it was then that / saw them, and
along with a score or more of home
folks took up the chase. Arriving
in town, they sure did beat it through
the business section, greatly to the
merriment of the villagers, and then
Sweeney, hot-footing after, up a resi-
dental street.
The dog was at their heels and
Sweeney, h~ot-footing after, a very
bad fifth. One native was heard to
remark: THAT mans running so fast
he'll set his socks on fire. Another
said, No, no; he's some Splinter, and
just because he's in Missouri, he's
trying to show us he can run"
Eventually spying an open door in a
cottage, the monks lodged therein.
1t is a well known fact that women
are also afraid of monkeys, for the
three members of the fair sex who
were in the front room of the cot
tage-mother, daughter and neigh
bor-as soo as they saw the mon
keys, jumped upon chairs and yelled
like Indians. It was in this situa-
ton that the dog, Sweeney and l
found them. Had Sweeney been
merely an observer, he would have
stopped, looked and laughed; but he
was as seriously intent on getting
the escaped monks, and so, while he
looked, he did not stop, also, he did
not laugh; what he really did was
this. With o~utstreatched arms he
gasping stalked through the parlor
of the cottage, not even stopping
to remove his hat, not stopping to
see where he Vas going.
Across the dining room went
Sweeney and eventually into a bed
room, where he trapped the monks.
They were seated on top of a tall
dresser, chattering excitedly. The
animals were drenched to the skin
and %shivering, for considerable rain
had fallen during the preceding night.
Glad as we were to capture the
monks, we were no more delighted
than the women occupants of the
house, for they could not thank us
enough for our timely advent in their
mist"
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