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If asked why I made this silly display of lower-form learning, I can only say that I chafed at being fancied a mere every-day street musician, that had left his monkey at home, by the charming girl who stood gracefully bending over her father's elbow, as the latter examined the inscription that was stamped on a small piece of ivory which had been let into the instrument.
"I had rather uncle Frank would carry him back to Africa," sighed the child. "He would be so unhappy." "Well, dear, I wouldn't grieve about it now. We must manage somehow till uncle Frank comes, and then perhaps he can tell us what to do. Now I'll read you another story." "A monkey living with a gentleman in the country became so troublesome that the servants were constantly complaining."
On this signal the drums beat, the bands played, the statue was unveiled but M. Thiers had lost control of "Vanndomme," who, wild with enthusiasm, bolted head down, overthrowing drums and drum- major, while the little minister clung to his back like a monkey in a circus. It was a comical sight!
The children laughed as she went downstairs with the parrot on her finger, and Sue said: "A monkey would be funny if he could talk, wouldn't he?" "I should say so!" exclaimed Mr. Treadwell. "But now, children, we'll get on with the play." Miss Winkler took her parrot home and shut him, or her, up in a cage. Sometimes "Polly" was called "him," and again "her." It didn't seem to matter which.
"In twenty years, thanks to that Code, which pillages fortunes under what they call 'Successions, an heiress worth a million will be as rare as generosity in a money-lender. Suppose Modeste does want to spend all the interest of her own money, well, she is so pretty, so sweet and pretty; why she's you poets are always after metaphors she's a weasel as tricky as a monkey."
Debts he owns none but shrewd turns, and those he pays ere he be sued. He is a flattering glass to conceal age and wrinkles. He is mountain's monkey that, climbing a tree and skipping from bough to bough, gives you back his face; but come once to the top, he holds his nose up into the wind and shows you his tail.
"Stop talkin' about what's gone, an' just go to thinkin' how you'll get more. Do what you've a mind to the monkey, but don't keep broodin' over what you can't help." Toby knew that the advice was good and he struggled manfully to carry it into execution, but it was very hard work.
It lives in the thick woods, and sleeps all day, but when night comes, it starts forth after its food, which consists of fruits, insects, and small birds. It is a little bigger, you see, than a common cat. The Lemur, of which there are several varieties, is a good deal like a monkey in his habits and some of them look like monkeys. "You've seen, Charley, tigers in the Menagerie.
"Sot down, Massa Nadgel," said that sable worthy, as he stuffed his mouth full of rice; "it's easier to sot dan to stand w'en its eart'quakin'." Nigel sat down with a tendency to laugh, for at that moment he chanced to glance at the rafters above, where he saw a small anxious-faced monkey gazing down at him. He was commenting on this creature when another prolonged shock of earthquake came.
The sky, however, was cloudy, and we had greater difficulty than before in guiding our course. We rode on for some hours, until the pangs of hunger and the necessity of resting ourselves made us resolve to stop. I was fortunate enough to kill a good-sized monkey, which was grinning down at us from a bough close above our heads; and we also found as much wild fruit as we required.
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