Jinny. The Taming of a Bad Monkey 
would come running to meet him, and if he passed 
the cage without noticing her, she would jump up 
and down on all fours, scratching her ribs with her 
little finger, and giving a peevish, “Errr, errr.” 
She was in good health now, and mentally as 
keen as a brier. She had more sense, the keeper 
used to say, than “some humans he could name.” 
With her renewal of life and strength, and the 
total elimination of perpetual terror and sense of ss 
cruelty, she developed a most lively disposition. \ 
She was full of tricks that were partly due to her 
active brain and partly her physical energy. And 
strange to say, she also showed that at bottom hers 
was a most affectionate nature. As Bonamy said, 
she turned out to be the best Monkey he ever 
handled. She was worth more than a Lion to 
draw the public. She could take the crowd away 
from the Elephant and keep them, too, and seemed 
to have a pride in it, she was so nearly human. 
There was not an animal in the Zoo that the keep- 
ers thought as much of as Jinny. They learned 
to count on her now to “swing the whole thing” Ct 
when there was a special day for school children. 
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THE SOUL OF A MONKEY Wy \ 
Three months had barely gone since Jinny came, 
and though not an important animal judged by 
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