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above, left him nearly the sole possessor of the deck. I 

 do not know that he saw me, for I was sitting behind 

 the companion door. The men had been painting the 

 ship outside, and were putting a broad band of white 

 upon her, when they went to dinner below, leaving their 

 paint and brushes on the upper deck. Jack enticed his 

 victim to him, who meekly obeyed the summons ; and 

 seizing him with one hand, he with the other took the 

 brush, and covered him with the white fluid from head 

 to foot. The laugh of the man at the helm called my 

 attention to the circumstance ; and as soon as Jack 

 perceived he was discovered, he dropped his dripping 

 brother, and rapidly scampered up the rigging, till he 

 gained the maintop, where he stood with his nose be- 

 tween the bars looking at what was going on below. 

 As the other monkey began to lick himself I called up 

 the steward, who washed him clean with turpentine, and 

 no harm ensued ; but Jack was afraid to come down, 

 and only after three days passed in his elevated place of 

 refuge did hunger compel him to descend. He chose 

 the moment when I was sitting on deck, and, swinging 

 himself by a rope, he dropped suddenly into my lap, 

 looking so imploringly at me for pardon, that I not only 

 forgave him myself, but procured his absolution from 

 others. Jack and I parted a little to the south of the 

 Scilly Islands, after five months' companionship, and 

 never met again ; but I was told that he was much dis- 

 tressed at my absence, hunted for me all over the vessel 

 h the most disconsolate manner, even venturing into 

 r.iy cabin ; nor was he reconciled to the loss of me when 

 the ship's company parted in the London Docks. 



Another monkey, of the same species as Jack, was 

 trained by a man in Paris to perform a multitude of 



