Year: 1879

her cry; it is a pretty melancholy cry.
When angry she makes a different noise !;
when eating or warm she grunts with salts
faction, and they say / grunt like her
Jenny has trembling whine. Little Jack
chatters .'kik-kik-ki and when he is in
trouble he screams most fearfully. The
marmosett's note is a very high, squeaky,
plaintive note, like that of bat. He has
also another note which | cannot describe :;
it is of anger or fear.


When the dinner of boiled potatoes is
brought up the monkeys sit round the plate,
each one eating as fast as he can. 1t is
then that their sefishness is fully demon
sirated. There is an old riddle: ''Why
does a dog carry bone in his mouth ?
Ans. Because he has no pocket to put it
in" Most monkeys have cheek pouches
and am sure the reason why they have
pouches is as follows: Their natural habi-
tations is in trees. They come down on the
ground for insects. Ny monkeys are par
ticularly fond of meal-worms. They col
lect their food on the ground and put it in
their pOckets-that is, p0uches-and go up
into the trees again to finish their dinner.
They, therefore, when the potatoes arrive,
set TO work eating rs hard as they can.
They fill their pouches at the same time.
Little Jack has very large pouches; no
trace of them can be seen at ordinary times,
but at dinner time he fills his pouches to
such an extent that the two of them put 20
gether are nearly as big as his whole head.


Well, one day the two elderly monkeys
were sitting on the perch in the cage, fin
ishing off the contents of their pouches,
and their tails were hanging straight down
I from the perch. What must rascally little
Jack do but take Tiny's tail in one hand
and Jenny's tail in the other, and give both
at the same moment a tremendous pull.
I This brought the two beauties ON to the
I floor of the cage in an instant. They were
/ both furious at being thus interrupted at
dinner time they asked no questions, but
each thinking the other had insulted her,
I began TO fight in a most mlOving manner.
/ They grappled and rolled over and over like
an animated ball. They don't hurt them
selves when fighting; their teeth are not
big enough. can always stop them by
throwing cold water on them. While they
were fighting little Jack kept jumping
down upon them, TO keep them going, as 1t
were The rascal was much too active ever
to get caught. The noise of the combat
brought up Jenny the surricate from the
kitchen below. Jenny was picken up by a
friend OF mine near the Cape of Good Hope.
He is about the size of a large rat, and no,
unlike mungOose in appearance. He al
WAYS turns up when monkey fight is 90
ne on, and, as usual, up my gentlema an
ONES, tail erect and fur all bristled up, to


make himself look big. 1t 50 happened
that during this fight Tiny's tail projected
through the bars. Jenny Immediately bit
it with his sharp teeth. Tiny thought II
was little Jack that had done this, 50 she
turned and hunted him all over the cage,
but she could not catch him. Little Jack
kept popping in and out the sleeping box,
and then Jenny joined IN the hunt Jem-
my kept guard outside the cage and bit
anybody's tail as their tails happened tG
come out from the bars. Altogether, there
was a nice row and little Jack, as usual,
! was at the bottom of it.