IN FEATHERS AND FUR, 53 
In the countries where monkeys are common, they are used 
for food, and a common green monkey baked in a pie, is said by 
travelers to be very nice eating. 
I must tell you one more story before I leave the monkeys, 
about one which was tamed by a traveler in South America. He 
was exceedingly fond of his master, and his favorite seat was on 
his shoulder, when he would wind his convenient long tail about 
the gentleman's neck — to hold on. The weather being warm, this 
sort of a necktie was rather uncomfortable, but the poor little 
monkey felt so disappointed and unhappy when his master refused 
to carry him on his shoulder, that he had not the heart to insist, 
and so Mr. Monkey kept his place. 
When he had nothing else to amuse him, he would entertain 
himself by twitching out two or three hairs from his master's head 
or filling his ears with leaves and other rubbish, and if the boat 
tipped any, he would hold on by his ear or hair. All of which was 
very nice for the monkey, but rather uncomfortable for his master. 
One reason they were so attached to each other, was probably the 
similarity of their pursuits ; they were both indefatigable insect 
hunters. The master hunted them for scientific purposes, but the 
monkey simply to eat. 
There is a curious fact told about monkeys which are kept in 
captivity ; they have the strangest fondness for eating their own 
tails ! If any body of less authority than Rev. J. G. Wood had 
told us of this, we would feel like laughing at it ; but he says it is 
true, that long-tailed monkeys of the old world will commence at 
the tip, and nibble away in spite of anything the keeper can do, 
till the tail is eaten up. 
