Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1910 — A MONKEY’S MEMORY. [ARTICLE]

A MONKEY’S MEMORY.

Jocko was a little monkey which was sent as a present from Demerara to a gentleman living in a town lx eastern Pennsylvania. He found a good home with people who gave him privileges that few of his kind In captivity ever know. The playful antics of th« little creature were ever, a source oi amusement to the family, who placet him in a room at the top of the house, and were very fond of him. When Jocko had been in the family three years, his owners made arrangements to go abroad. Not knowing what to do with the monkey, they concluded to send him to the zoological garden in Philadelphia, where they knew, he would be well cared for. The family felt sorry to part with him, but they knew it was all that could be done. Seven years rolled round before they uaw Jocko again; and then the former owner of Jocko, being in Philadelphia with his wife, went to the zoological garden to see him. When they stood before the cage where the monkey, with a number ot others, was confined, they peered In, trying to distinguish their own from among the other little creatures. One of the monkeyß reached his arm between the bars and plucked at the flowers on the woman’s hat. “Jocko!” she called. “Is that you, old fellotf? Have you forgotten us?” The monkey seemed to recognize the voice, and made frantic efforts to reach the woman, while his old master went in search of the keeper, to request him to take Jocko out, that they might see what he would do, and if he really recognized his friends. The man readily assented, and no Booner had the monkey attained his temporary freedom than he sprang upon his former master’s shoulder and chattered away in his native tongue. Great tears welled up Into his eyes and rolled down: his face, vitiich proved Aat he had not forgotten his friends, 1 and that gratitude, one of the rarest virtues in the breast of mankind, was not wanting In the child of the forest.