FOOLING JOE.

Patea Mail, 9 October 1882, Page 4

FOOLING JOE.

Joe, the chimpanzee, used to he let out in the mornings for cxccrcisc, and when the time came for going back to the cage delighted in keeping just out of reach of Sutton, his keeper. -No amount of bribery of fruit or sweets would came him to deccud from his porch. To what passion of the monkey’s mind could an appeal be made, and in what form was that appeal to be presented ? Mr Bartlett, the superintendent, bad observed that two weak points in Joe’s character were curiosity and cowardice, and he, therefore, approached the keeper in a mysterious manner and pretended to point out to him some strange monster in the dark passage underneath the gaspipe. saying, “Look out; there he is ! there he is !’ This worked upon Joe’s fear and curiosity until he gradually came close to the passage, crooning with agitation. Then Mr Bartlett .and the keeper, crying, “ He’s coming out; he’s coming out!” fled as if in great alarm toward Joe’s house, with the effect of inducing Joe to rush into it himself at top speed. Joe, Mv Buckland adds, never found out the the trick, with which he was repeatdly taken in .—“ Saturday Review.