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ever our grooms may think on the subject) that 

 a monkey of the veterinary doctor species is an 

 invaluable appendage to a stud of horses, and 

 ought to be imported and bred by the Zoological 

 Society for this express purpose. 



An accident, however, occurred shortly after the 

 monkey had taken up his residence in the stable, 

 which placed him on the sick list, and made him 

 a subject of surgical care. Being tired of driving 

 away the flies which tormented his patients, he 

 sought for variety, and observing, in the horses' 

 tails, some grey hairs mingled with the black, 

 to prevent the animals looking older than they 

 really were, he began in the kindest manner 

 to pluck them out. A kick, which laid poor 

 Jacko prostrate at a distance, with a swollen 

 physiognomy and fractured fore-arm, was the 

 ungracious return made for this piece of service, 

 thus reversing the old saying of " one good 

 turn deserves another."* 



After dinner we drove round the vicinity, 

 passed Weltervreden,'}' where are the barracks 



* At Singapore, observing one of these monkeys in a 

 stable, I inquired if Java horses were kept there ; the answer 

 was in the affirmative ; so Jacko was probably imported with 

 the horses to keep them in health. 



f The Malay name for Weltervreden is " Pasarsanan," 

 which signifies Monday market, CPasar, market ; sanan. 

 Monday.) 



