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Show u TEACHING MONKEYS A LESSON .-' Ddubed 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 the Himalayas stand alone. They slip Into the bugnlows nt Dalhouslu and. It Is nverred, carry off anything that Is not too heavy for them to handle. They spring from tree to tree, from house to house, gayly disporting tjo articles they have stolen from the bnvakfaBt or dining rooms of the Dal hpuslo people. " Few people like to shoot a monkey, and so the little fellows grow bolder all the time. A story is told of an Englishman near Dalhousle who was trying to protect his sugar cane patch with a great trench nnd a palisade covered with nails. All to no avail, however. -Tho owner walked dowrf to It one, morning and found a row of monkeys, seated.cn the palisade. Theimoment, -he.camo within reach they threw, his own,, sugar cane Into his face, after which they got down and' strollfed away, leisurely munching. The Britisher grew Irate. Such things were not to bo borne. He chased a lot of monkeys Into a tree, felled tho tree and caught four or five ycimg monkeys. The parents wnlkcd ncn n great perturbation, anxiously watching whllo their Infants' were painted from hend to foot with treacle and'lnrtar emetic. On being allowed to gb' they rushed oft Into the fond nnd'iwclcomo arms and wcro lmmcdl ately carried up Into the woods and there assiduously licked clean from top to toe by their loving pnrents. The inevitable effects followed, and the un happy condition of tho old monkeys I can easily be Imagined. They never rifled that patch of sugar cane uguln |