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THE MONKEYS.
67
be the funny little corner-man, who says all
the side-splitting things when he gets the right
cue."
" And I will be a jolly real blackamoor, with
huge collars and a lace paper
pocket-handkerchief, and won’t I rattle the bones, that’s all!"
said another monkey.
" But how did you get here ?" the Hanuman
asked.
"That’s a sorry tale," Jocko replied; "for
Carlo and I having been out enjoying ourselves
in this way till late at night, had earned no
money that evening, and the Padrone was
very angry in the morning, and a quarrel took
place between him and Carlo, for he wanted
the money, and Carlo had none to give him.
He took the organ from my master, and turned
him out of doors, after a frightful row,—lively
Italian row,—all words and no blows, as they
fortunately had no knives about them, and the
nasty old Padrone, who had himself begun
life as an organ-grinder, and ought to have
had pity upon poor Carlo, wanted to seize me
to pay the debt, but I wasn’t going to pay my
master’s debt in that way. Was I bound to do
it ?" asked little Jocko.
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