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THE BELLOWING MONKEY. — (See p. 109.) 



face, and at the first opportunity took up the razor to shave himself, and made shift to cut his 

 own throat. When the wild monkeys have escaped to the top of trees, the people below who 

 want to catch them show them the use of gloves, by putting them on and pulling them off repeat- 

 edly ; and when the monkeys are supposed to have taken the hint, they leave plenty of gloves on 

 the ground, having first lined them with pitch. The monkeys come down, put on the gloves, but 

 cannot pull them off again ; and when they arc surprised, betaking themselves to the trees as 

 usual, they slide backward and are caught. A monkey who had seen his mistress upon her pillow 

 in a nightcap, which at her rising she pulled off and hung upon a chair, put on the cap, laid his 

 head upon the pillow, and, by personating the lady, made himself ten times more frightful and 

 ridiculous, — as awkward people do, when they ape their superiors, and affect a fashion which is 

 above their sphere. 



" A mischievous disposition is always inclined to persecution. There are minds whose greatest 

 pleasure it is to ride and tease the minds of other people. A late friend and neighbor of mine in 

 the country kept a monkey who took to riding his hogs, especially one of them, which he com- 

 monly singled out as fittest for his use ; and leaping upon its bach, with his face toward the tail, 

 he whipped it unmercifully, and drove it about till it could run no longer. The hogs lived under 

 such continual terrors of mind, that when the monkey first came abroad in the morning, they 

 used to set up a great cry at the sight of him. 



"A well-known nobleman once had a wild horse wdiom nobody could ride. 'I know not what 

 your lordship can do with him,' said one, ' but to set the monkey upon his back.' So they put a 

 pad to the horse, and set the monkey upon it with a switch in his hand, which he used upon the 

 horse, and set him into a furious kicking and galloping ; but Pug kept his seat and exercised his 

 switch. The horse lay down upon the ground ; but when he threw himself on one side, the mon- 

 key was up on the other : he ran into a wool with him, to brush him off; but if a tree or bush 

 occurred on one side, the monkey slipped to the other side ; till at last the horse was so sickened, 

 fatigued, and broken-spirited, that he ran home to the stable for protection. When the monkey 

 was removed, a boy mounted him, who managed the horse with ease,- and lie never gave any 

 trouble afterward. 



"In all the actions of the monkey, there is no appearance of any thing good or useful, nor any 

 species of evil that is wanting in them. They are, indeed, like to mankind : they can ride a pig 



