Jinny. The Taming of a Bad Monkey 
rolled herself all the way to the top, reversing the 
loops to climb down again. 
In spite of printed warnings, some woman passed 
under the barrier and reached forward to pull 
the tail of another Monkey who was crouching with 
his back to the public, and came so near that Jinny 
snatched her hat off, and putting it on her own 
head, continued to perform, and drew still louder 
rounds of applause from the crowd. There can be 
no doubt that she appreciated the applause, for it 
was noticed that she always did best for a crowd. 
Most monkeys have a human side, but Jinny 
was unusually gifted that way, and the head- 
keeper had a personal interest in her, so that now 
he went to his office with a sense of personal 
pride. 
Jinny meanwhile played her lively pranks to a 
lively audience. Small boys threw peanuts which 
she ignored, for her cheeks were already bulging 
with them, and grown-ups threw bonbons which 
she promptly rescued from the other monkeys, for 
she was the largest in the cage and had the well- 
earned reputation of being a dangerous fighter. 
Every one but the owner of the lost bonnet was 
convulsed with joy as she dissected it bit by bit, 
and spat out the pieces that she tore from the trim- 
ming. Then responding to the tenth encore, she 
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