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CHAPTER XIY. 



A SECOND DIGRESSION FAIKY TALES FOR LITTLE 



FOLKS. 



It TY five acres at Flushing were located on the 

 -^-*- top of a hill called Monkey Hill ; why so called 

 I can not imagine, for there was never a monkey 

 seen there since the earliest recollection of the first 

 inhabitant ; nor could it have been from the want of 

 monkeys, as that is so common a deficiency on Long 

 Island. To be sure, there is a settlement of Irish on 

 one declivity near the salt meadow ; but even sup 

 posing that, by a stretch of the imagination, Irishmen 

 can be converted into monkeys, that- is of compara 

 tively modern date, whereas our Dutch ancestry 

 named the hill generations back. Nevertheless, the 

 hill is Monkey Hill, and the settlement is Monkey 

 Town. 



I wander through Monkey Town occasionally, ad 

 mire the originality of its Celtic architecture, puz 

 zling myself over the buildings to find out which are 

 pig-pens and which are houses for the pig-pens are 



