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Show An Unlocked for Complication. "He's an awfully smart boy, I discharged dis-charged him from my employ and told him I d never take him back. Then he eloped with my daughter, and now I've gojfto support him until he finds work." The way in which monkeys catch land crabs is described by a sportsman who made an expedi tion to the j unglea around Singapore, and there enjoyed sport which makes the contemporaneous records of Indian experiences pale into insignificance. insignifi-cance. The monkey lies down flat on its stomach, feigning death. From the countless passages piercing the mud in j: . - j-u ........ ...4.. t l n i every direction thousands of little red" and yellow crabs soon make their.ap-pearance, their.ap-pearance, and after suspiciously eying for a few minutes the hrown fur of tho monkey, they slowly and cautiously slida up to him, in great glee at the prospect of a big feed off the bones of Jocko. The latter peeps through his half closed eyelids, eye-lids, and fixes upon the biggest of the assembled as-sembled multitude. Whan the crab comes within reach, out dashes the monkey's arm, and off he scampers into the jungle with a cry of delight to discuss at leisure his cleverly earned dinner. "Rarely did the monkeys seem to miss their prey," adds the describer of thia scene. "I saw, however, one old fellow do so, and it was ludicrous in the extreruo to see the rage it put him in. Jumping for fully a minute up and down on all fours at the mouth of the hole into which the crab had escaped, ho positively howled with vexation. Then he set ta work poking the mud about with his fingers fin-gers at the entrance to the passage, fruitlessly fruit-lessly trying every now and again to peep into it." Those same monkeys, the so called pig tailed variety, are taught by the Malays to pick fruit for them in tho forests. for-ests. Tho monkeys select tho ripest fruit, and their masters, by following their movements, catch them in a cloth before they reach tho ground. The monkey is too well trained to attempt to eat any fruit while at work, but when sufficient are gathered he is duly rewarded ior his self denial. London Globe. |
