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Jinny. The Taming of a Bad 
Monkey 
A DANGEROUS BRUTE 
HE cage that arrived at Wardman’s 
Menagerie was heavily bound with 
iron, and labelled ‘ Dangerous”; 
and when John Bonamy, the head- 
keeper, came up close to peep in, 
a hoarse “‘Koff, kof,” and a shock against the 
bars warned him that the label was amply justified. 
Through the grating his practised eye made out 
the dark visage of a Hanuman, or Langur Monkey, 
the largest and strongest of the kinds that come 
from India, a female, but standing over three feet 
high, and of bulk enough to be a dangerous 
antagonist, even to a man. 
The other keepers gathered around, and the 
Monkey worked herself up into a storm of rage, 
leaping against the bars whenever one of the men 
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