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There he sat laughing at a hundred and fifty men and boys, employed in the vain attempt to catch one monkey! Sailors are certainly not men to give up a pursuit lightly; but after an hour of as hard labour as I ever witnessed, they were all obliged to relinquish the chase from sheer fatigue, and poor Jacko was pardoned by acclamation.
"Come along, Jacko!" he called to his monkey, and then he fastened the rope back on his monkey's collar and made him jump up on the organ. Then the two of them went down the street. "Oh, there he goes!" thought the poor Calico Clown, still up in the tree. "Oh, he's going to leave me here! Oh, what shall I do?" Well might he ask that. What could he do? How was he going to get down?
As the five of them started down the street Bunny stopped suddenly. "What's the matter?" asked his mother. "I I forgot something," he said. "I've got to see Mr. Winkler!" and he started off on a run. Mart Clayton, the boy who had climbed the tree to get down Mr. Winkler's monkey, looked first at funny Bunny Brown, who was trotting downstreet, and then he looked at Bunny's mother.
"I don't want them," said Donald. "Better let them go, I think," added the colonel. "Well, I hope I have seen the last of Monkey Rae for a good while," went on Pepper. "Then as Dogberry says: 'Let us call the watch together and thank God we are rid of a knave," quoted Rand. Picking up the drifting boat the Scout was headed down the river and in a few minutes they were off the colonel's landing.
The children ran to the window to listen, hanging recklessly out over the sill. "It's a grind-organ man!" cried Elsie, "and he's got a monkey." "I wonder how Dago would act if he were to see one of his own family," said Phil. "Come on, let's take him down and see."
Yes; there was the monkey in his blue and red suit, with a funny little cap, and the long tail trailing behind. But he didn't seem to be a lively monkey; for he sat in a bunch, with his sad face turned anxiously to his master, who kept pulling the chain to make him dance.
We took particular pains to notice on this occasion the effects which this horrid spectacle would produce on their minds, and our observation taught us that while a very few turned with loathing from the scene, a large majority manifested that levity and curiosity superinduced by witnessing a monkey show."
"Blamed if I didn't think they was goin' to dance right thar," said the old man. "Jasper, what makes you wanter talk thatter way?" "Didn't see how they could keep from it, Margaret. Couldn't see no way to hold 'em back. Jest as ready to dance as the b'ar and the monkey that the feller come along the road with last year, mebbe year befo' last.
But he used to say that in the other world a good Frenchman becomes an Englishman, a bad Englishman becomes a Frenchman. He saw in the typical Gaul a compound of the tiger and the monkey; noted their want of individuality, their tendency to go in flocks, their susceptibility to panic and to ferocity, to the terror that makes a man kill people, and "the terror that makes him lie down and beg."
Stubbs's brother was quite as mischievous as a monkey could be; he capered around the room, picking at this thing and looking into that, until Aunt Olive laughed herself tired, and Uncle Daniel declared that if the other monkey was anything like this one, Toby was right when he named him Steve Stubbs, so much did he resemble that gentleman in inquisitiveness.
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