HOW TO CAPTURE MONKEYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 17 February 1883, Page 4

HOW TO CAPTURE MONKEYS.

An old, bard cocoanut is taken and a very smnll hole made in the shell. Furnished with this and a pocketful oi boiled rice the sportsman sallies into the forest and stops beneath a tree tenanted with monkeys, VVithin fuli sight ofthese inquisitive spectators he first cats a little rice and puts a quantity into the cocauut, with all the ostentation possili'\ The nut is then laid upon the g:tu 1 and the hunter r::i-vs to a couve..ieiit ambush, The reader may h sure that no. sooner is the wan out of. their sight than the • monkeys race helter-skelter for the cocoanut. The first arrival peeps into it, and seeing the plentiful store of rice inside, squeezes his hand in through the tiny hole and clutches a handful, Now so paramount is greed over every other feelings connected with monkey nature, that nothing will induce the creature to relinquish his hold. With it hands thus clasped he cannot possible extract it, but the thought that, if he lete go, one of his brethren will obtain • the treat is bverpowwing. The sportsman soon appears ut pon the scene. The unincumbered monkeys fly in all diroc- ;■'; tionß; but the unfortunate brute, who : . .still will not let the rice go, is thereby }. ■' '.handicapped beyond hope with a coeoamit as Lirge as himself, a state of affairs quite fatal to rapid locomotion, either ■ terrestial or arboreal. The sequel is v that he falls captive to the hunter, a . victim to his.own greed, Even when . caught he reads i't the actions of his cantor a deem to sob him of his rice,

and he clutches it all the harder, and the first thing lie does wlientheriutis. cracked and his hand released is ito* cram its contents into his' mtiuthl Thoughts of escape come afterwards : London Field,