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Show TEACHING MONKEYS A LESSON Daubed With Treacle and Tartar Emetic, They Never Rifled Sugar Cane Patch Again. It Is said that for cool Impudence and sheer audacity tho hill monkeys of tho Himnlajas stand nlono. They slip Into tho bugalows at Dalhousle and, It Is averred, carry oft anything that Is not too heavy for them to hnndle They spring from tree to tree, from house to houso, gayly disporting the articles thoy have stolen from the breakfast or dining roouiB of tho Dal houslo people. Few piople like to shoot a monkey, nnd so the llttlo fellows grow bolder all the time A story Is told of an Englishman near Dalhouslo who was trying to protect his sugar cano patch with a great trench nnd a palisade covered with unlit), All to no nll. how e er Tho owner walked down to It one morning and found n row of monkeys seated on tho pallsudo. The moment ho camp within reach they throw his own sugar cane Into his face, after which the got down nnd strolled iwuy. leisure! munching. The Britisher grew liate. Such things were not to be borne. He chased u lot of monkeys Into n tree felled the tree nnd caught four or five young mmikejs Tho pnrents wnlked . nenr In grent perturbation, anxiously watching whllo their Infants were pnintid from head to foot with treacle and tartar emetic. On being nllowcd to go they rushed off Into the fond nnd welcome nrms and were Immedl ately carried up Into tho woods and thero assiduously licked clean from ' top to too by their loving parents. The I Incvltnlilo' effects followed, and tho un i happy condition of tho old monkeys can easily bo Imagined. They never rifled that patch of sugar cane again ' o |