Jinny. The Taming of a Bad Monkey 
ourselves, monkeys do not want to eat when they 
are all upset, they want a drink of water and quiet. 
Next day she was perched up high, so the keeper 
put in his long hook to draw out the travelling coop. 
She sprang at him and raged against the bars. He 
tried to drive her back by prodding with the hook, 
but that only made her worse. 
Bonamy had often warned his men against get- 
ting into a fight with the animals. ‘It does no 
good and only spoils our show.” So Keefe came 
to him, grumbling: he “couldn’t do nothing with 
that crazy Monkey.” As soon as the two men 
entered the building Jinny sprang toward them, 
mad with rage; then Bonamy knew that Keefe 
had done more than he had owned up to. He 
sent him away and, standing very still, began to 
talk to the Monkey. ‘Now, Jinny,” said he, “aren’t 
you ashamed of yourself? Here, we want to be 
you go on!”’ It took fully ten minutes of that 
gentle talking and that strong, kind personality | 
before the Monkey would listen to reason and get 
calm. Sheclimbed up to the high shelf and sat there 
scowling, lifting her eyebrows and watching this 
big man, so different from the others she had met. 
Realizing that the keeper had in some way in- | 
curred the Monkey’s hate, he set about removing 
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