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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. A¥hen the wild monkeys have escaped to the top of trees, the people below wdio 
want to catch them show them the use of gloves, hy 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 are surprised, betaking themselves to the trees as 
usual, they sHde backward and are caught. A monkey who had seen his mistress upon her pillow 
in a nightcap, which at her rising she pulled oft' 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 o/^e their supei'iors, and aff"ect 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 back, 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 siglit of him. 
"A well-known nobleman once had a wild horse whom nobody could ride. 'I know not what 
3^our 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 wood 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 he never gave any 
trouble afterward. 
" In all the actions ot 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 
