Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — Fan and the Monkey. [ARTICLE]

Fan and the Monkey.

A gentlemau who held a judicial position in India tells this story: I was a magistrate in those days, and Fan, a favorite dog of mine,always went to court with me and sat on a chair by my side. I had a tame monkey, too, which Fan was very fond of. I used to couple them together, and they played about the grounds very happily. One day I expected some friends to luncheon. I was in court, and somehow or other I had left Fan at home that day. As I was rather late at my work my friends arrived before I came home, and seeing Fan they dressed the monkey up in his red jacket and blue trousers; and fastening his chain round tho dog’s neck, with a card tied round it, on which was written “Mulligatawny is getting cold,” told Fan to go to her master. Well, Fan set off, the monkey running by her side and trying in vain to hold her back, by hanging to the chain. I was busy writing down the evidence, and took no notice of Fan jumping up into her usual position upon tho chair, not even looking at her, but my attention was soon attracted by the monkey, who, in full uniform, seated himself on my table, and put one hand into the ink, while with the other he seized the pen I was writing with, to my consternation and to the amusement of the crowds of natives with which the court was thronged. I need not say I was obliged to adjourn the court after that, and go off to tiffin, which, you know, is the India term for lunch.—[New York Advertiser.