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THE MONKEYS.
59
I acquire I am wont to call mine. Papas and
mammas, please don’t object, as it is only a little
love by proxy, for my own are a thousand
miles away.
Well, where do you think I found my merry
little friend, whom I had seen attired in a frock
of " Rob Roy " tartan ? Why, in the Zoo, and
the precious little rascal was there acting a
part quite novel to him. He pretended now
to be quite wild and untamed, the artful little
monkey! It " suited his purpose," he said to
me, for through this ingenious trick he had
succeeded in becoming a dweller in the
spacious and splendid monkey-house, where
he now enjoyed agreeable companionship and
real daily fun amongst his own kith and kin.
He shook hands with me, and grinned at me
in a friendly manner.
" Well, merry little Jocko," I said, " how did
you get here ? "
" I will tell you," he replied, with a grin of
satisfaction, and quite a crowd of his inquisitive
brethren, after a few agile and preliminary
gambols,—performed, I suppose, to enable
them to subdue their nature and keep quiet for
a few minutes,—gathered around him, and near
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