134 THE STORY OF JACKO II. 



into the studio, and handed Michette over to the cook, who 

 thought for some time that she was quite dead ; but the 

 warmth of the kitchen and judicious feeding gradually 

 restored her, and in a day or two she was herself once 

 mOre ; but nothing would ever induce her to go near Jacko 

 again. 



Jacko himself was rather stiff, but he soon recovered 

 his circulation and wonted activity, except in his tail, 

 which remained frozen, and which, having frozen whilst 

 curled round Michette's tail, retained a corkscrew form— 

 a shape unknown amongst monkeys, and which had the 

 funniest appearance you can imagine. 



Three days later a thaw set in, and the thaw caused 

 a strange thing to happen. 



One day Jacko was perched on the top of a tall ladder 

 in the studio, when a lad suddenly came in bringing back 

 a large lion's skin which Tony had sent to be mounted. 

 The boy had hung the skin over his back, and it partly 

 covered his head ; and his appearance, and the smell of 

 the skin, so terrified Jacko, that he turned quite faint and 

 fell down from the ladder. 



He was promptly picked up and soon restored to his 

 senses, but in the sudden fall his frozen tail had snapped 

 right off, and Jacko had to pass the remainder of his life 

 a tail-less monkey. 



