A MONKEY'S FIDELITY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2567, 22 December 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MONKEY'S FIDELITY.

An instance of the instinct and fidelity of a young monkey comes from Batignolles, a suburb of Paris. A little boy (so says a French journal), the son of an inhabitant of that part of the'city, was playing in one ot the rooms of his father's fiat with the monkey, which is a most intelligent and domesticated member of its species. The boy in a fit of juvenile caprice, tied the cord of a window blind around his neck, and pretended to hang himself, to the immense amusement of hia Simian playmate, which grinned and chattered on a chair. Suddenly the boy became livid, and began to cry, for the cord had got into a real noose around his neck. In a rery short space of time the monkey took in the situation, and tried to undo the noose with its paws, but had to givu itp the attempt. It then hopped away to another room, where the boy's grandmother was sitting, and began to pull at her gown, to chatter, grimace, and look wistfully towards the door. At first, thinking that the animal wanted to bite her, the old lady was frightened, but seeing that it was endeavouring, with might and main, to drag her towards the door, she rose from her seat and went, piloted by the monkey, to the room where her grandson was moaning. The boy was instantly extricated from his perilous position, though it was some time before he recovered from his pain and fright. Jocko, the deliverer, says the French authority for this strange narrative, received a nice little tablet of chocolate cream for his splendid action, and he deserved it.