A Puzzled Monkey.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 158, 26 June 1886, Page 1

A Puzzled Monkey.

The St. Louis " Republican " gives an ac count of a lively monkey 'a perplexity over his own imago. A number of the little creatures were at the fair grounds, where they amused everyone by their antica and mischief. One of them was particularly lively, and soon became a great favourite with the bystanders. A gentleman { n the crowd, happening to have a small mirror with him, passed it to the monkey. The animal's behaviour on seeing his face reflected in the glass was very amusing. He, of course, failed to recognite the reflection of himself, and took it for another monkey ; and his anxiety to get hold of that monkey was what made the fun. He would look behind tho glass, and feel for it in such a comical way while he was looking in the g]a*s that one could not help laughing. While the glass was close to his eye he gradually bent over, casually ; and, noticing that the evanescent monkey was on his back, apparently, he dropped the glass and made a sudden grab for him. When he didn't get him he looked surprised, and commenced looking under the straw to see what had become of him. He was then aeized with a luminous idea : He picked up the glass and ran to the topmost branch of the dead tree that is erected in the cage, and, climbing to the extreme end, again looked in the glass. It seemed he reasoned that in such a position the monkey could not get away. He felt for it, grabbed at it, and tried all sorts of strategy to capture it, notwithstanding repeated failures*