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Show "MB. 3E00IS," OF LLK-CTAk , ltaaoa' Mitchell, farmer rough rider, now United 8 tales Consul at Zanzibar,, haa found many odd diversions to enliven en-liven his eslie. and please his taste for adventure, but among his .African ec quAlntences nose held hlghec favor than "Brooks," a chlmpaasee whose almost al-most human Qualities, and cultivated presence, alaa, are missing from drawing-room and promenade. He waa cap tyred, when Quit young, by thejtf any-amas any-amas fn the west Congo district, naar Lke Tanganlki, and after adventure unrecorded, was brought down' the coast, and given to the .bishop of Sierra Leone, Here tie remained for a year, as a pet of the ecclesiastical household, and was taught many tricks "by the bishop. At length the bishop was married, mar-ried, and his wife objected to the presence pres-ence of Brooks without clothing. As She said , ' - "If he's to be treated like a chude mut be properly brought up, and taught to wear each garment as are seemly and decent." ' V . A suit of clothes was' made, and put on for the first tone on a Sunday afternoon, after-noon, when a tea was to be given oa the lawn. When all the guest were seated beneath the grateful shade of a cocoanut tree," Mr." Brooks waa led out In his new and swagger suit, a cuta- way coat, white waistoo&t, ni checked trousers, and given his customary seat at table, where he had always conducted conduct-ed himself with the utmost ease and dignity. On this occasion, he behaved with propriety until hi share of th eatable had been tucked away. Then seeing that there was nothing to lose by expressing his pent-up emotions of protest, he sprang from the table, and rapidly climbed to the top of the overhanging over-hanging cocoanut tree, splitting ' his hew coat up the back In his reckless haste, fiafeiyjerched a loft, - he proceeded pro-ceeded to tear off hi ofothes. swearing scandalously, and threw the ahredded garments St' the gnests below. Not. satisfied with thl expression of opinion, Mr. Brooke picked the cocoa-nuts cocoa-nuts from nearby branches; and hurled them with deadly aim -at the table, until un-til the bishop and his meets fled for their lives, and the afternoon Je vtit total wreck. Ootlng. . |