Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Monkey Play. [ARTICLE]

Monkey Play.

The monkeys of India have a game like the English boys’ cock of the dunghill or king of the castle, but, instead of pushing each other from the top of a knoll or dust heap, the castle is a pendant branch of a tree. The game is to keep a place on the bough, which swings with theii weight as with a cluster of fruit, while the players struggle to dislodge one another, each, as he drops, running round and climbing up again tc begin anew.