Her knowledge of
monkeys was slight, but she fancied they looked with favour on bananas.
"I learned dot trick in Mogoung Tanjong when I was collecting liddle
monkeys for some peoples in Berlin.
Whoever owned it could call three times upon the Winged
Monkeys, who would obey any order they were given.
He asked me, "what my thoughts and speculations were, while I lay in the
monkey's paw; how I liked the victuals he gave me; his manner of feeding; and whether the fresh air on the roof had sharpened my stomach." He desired to know, "what I would have done upon such an occasion in my own country." I told his majesty, "that in Europe we had no
monkeys, except such as were brought for curiosity from other places, and so small, that I could deal with a dozen of them together, if they presumed to attack me.
We do not drink where the
monkeys drink; we do not go where the
monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
She had felt sure from the first that her son's pet
monkey was no other than Prince Alphege, and she longed to put an end to him.
His eye was caught by a building of pale-blue tin, stencilled "Calvinist Chapel," before whose shuttered windows an Italian organ-grinder .with a petticoated
monkey was playing "Dolly Grey-"
A MAN of humble birth and no breading, who held a high political office, was passing through a forest, when he met a
Monkey.
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ- grinder came round with a
monkey on a string.
Then he stooped and gathered a handful of earth, and murmured some words over it, after which he threw the earth in my face, saying as he did so, "Quit the form of a man, and assume that of a
monkey." This done, he vanished, and I was in the likeness of an ape, and in a country I had never seen before.
JUPITER held a baby show, open to all animals, and a
Monkey entered her hideous cub for a prize, but Jupiter only laughed at her.
Sara she was called, a small, green
monkey from South America, who seemed to have been born hysterical and indignant, and with no appreciation of humour.