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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 139, 20 April 1854, Page 4

The Intonicated Monkey.-UNKNOWN, as he was called, seeing his master and some companious drinking, with those imitative powers for which his species is remarkable, tinding half n (;l:iss or vliisk'-y lcl"l. loiil-: ii up and drank it o!T. ll l!i'\v'ot ronr.-e lo his head. iVmid the nii'.iv. of !:ii';;hlor, lie Itjv.h'. Ist skip. Jiop, and dacre. .'ark was drunk. N:*\l, dav. when !!»:■>• vent, with tin* intention of repenting ihe fun, lo lake ill'; poor monkey from his'hox, l:c was not lobe seen. ■ Lookins; inside, there lie lay crouched in a corner. "Come mil." sail! hi-, mas:er. Afraid to disobey, he came walking on lliree, legs —'l c fore-paw hat was laid on his forehead saviag, as plain ;r. words ronl.l do, that ho had a hw.dacho.—Havinr? led him some days to pel well', a'ld resume hisgairly, ihey at lenglii carried him oil' lo the. old scene of revel. On entering, he eyed the glasses' with manifest terror, skulking behind Hie chairs; and, on his master ordering him to drink, he hulled d ' *.is on ihe house-top in a twinkling. They called him down. He would mil come. His master shook a whip ni him. •'aid-, astride on Iho ridge-pole, grinned defiance. A gun, oi* which he was always n.iieh afraid, was pouted at liiis disciple' of temperance ; he ducked his head, and slipped over to iho back of the house. Two gnus were now levelled at him—one from each side of iho house— hjiuii which, seeing his predicament, and less afraid apparently whiskey, Urn monkey leaped iila bound/on Ihe'ehimney-lop, and, gelling down into a fine, held 011 by his forepaws. Although his ansier kept him for •twelve years after ihal, lie mt\r i.t.hM persuailc the monlr.i/ lo tditi) one ilrop of ichiskcy. —/•'/(/;« Ihe live. I>r. UulUrie'j Old Year's tl'arniiiij.