A Monkey's Trick.
A few weeks since, for the third or fourth time within a year, a monkey -<%ured as an incendiary, firing a wellknown steam yacht Norma, lying at the wharf at New York, It seems to have gone about the job with the greatest deliberation, too —gnawed through the rope-with which it was tied up, cleared out a match safe in the cabin, and then started a blazo in A place which only a monkey would
have thought of, between the deck and the ceiling of the coal bunkers. It took the crew all night to locate > and put out the five, which was'filling " f the boat with smoke, the monkey, j; whoso part in the affair was cstab-1 lished by indisputable circumstantial j evidence, being afterwards found oil an eccentric bar in tho engine room, quietly grinning over the rumpus which it had raised. "Fire and Water" suggests that monkey risks will be next heard of in insurance circles if this kind of thing keeps up.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2869, 10 April 1888, Page 3
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169A Monkey's Trick. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2869, 10 April 1888, Page 3
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