SAVED BY A MONKEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2587, 9 February 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAVED BY A MONKEY.

An instance of the instinct of a monkey comes from Battignolles, a suburb of Paris. A little boy (so says a French journal), the son of au inhabitant of that part of the city, was playing in one of the rooms of his father's house 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 his simian playmate, which grinned and chatted 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 very short space of time the monkey took in the situation, and tried to undo the noose with its paws, but had to give up the attempt. It then hopped away to another room where the boy's grandmother was sitting, and began to pull her gown, to chatter, and to 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 extricated from his perilous position, though it was some time before he recovered from his pain and fright. .Tacko, tho deliverer, says the French authority of this strange narrative, received a nice little tablet of chocolate cream for his splendid action, and he deserved it.