246 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



which the lady of the mansion had given birth. 

 So fond had the monkey become of the little child, 

 that they were wheeled about together by a maid- 

 servant in a little chair. The child would cry if 

 the monkey were taken away ; and the monkey 

 would grin, shake her cage, and chatter, if not 

 permitted to '^ take the air." 



One day, when the nurse had slipped off to 

 dinner, leaving the babe asleep, the monkey got 

 out of its cage and attained the cradle, when, 

 finding the baby awake and sucking its thumb, — 

 I wish fond mammas would break babes of this 

 bearish propensity, — the monkey deemed that it 

 wished for air and exercise; so taking the child 

 out of the crib, — such being in aj^ish imagination 

 the best place for air, — the poor dear monkey carried 

 tlie child to the leads on the top of the house, and 

 there sat with it on the edge of a gutter repre- 

 senting the head of a satyr, in rainy days disgorging 

 water far above and immediately over the hard 

 stones of the paved court below. 



Tlie child was soon missed from its bed, and 

 then the monkey from its cage, and a general 

 search commenced, ending in the before-mentioned 

 disclosure on the gutter. 



