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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
monkey-house, Jocko went slowly aloft, and
perching on a pole, looked hard after us.
Some weeks after I paid another visit to
the monkeys, hoping to hear that Jocko had
been reunited to his beloved master. I asked
the warden if a little monkey, that had recently
been added to the collection, had been sold
again. " Oh, no, we never sell any," he
rejoined.
" But I don’t see him here," said I.
" Perhaps you mean a funny little fellow, full
of ridiculous tricks, that was bought not long
ago from a cabin boy that had brought him
from them foreign parts ; but he couldn’t stand
the climate, so he died, and will be stuffed, I
dare say," he added ; as if it was a consolation
for the poor creature to be so honoured.
" And has no one asked for him—a young
swarthy Italian, named Carlo ?" I asked.
" No one, sir," he answered.
Ah ! I understood. Carlo had got no work ;
how could he ! he could do nothing but turn
an organ. Poor Jocko had waited and waited,
had longed and despaired, and pined away,
and finally had broken his little heart, and
died—pining for his beloved friend.
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