Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — PROVED ABILITY TO REASON [ARTICLE]

PROVED ABILITY TO REASON

Hard to Explain Monkey’s Action in Putting Out Fire Unless That Ad- . mission Is Made. A Louisiana planter who owns a pet monkey which answers to the name of Jocko, teils an anecdote about him which proves•that' such animals can and do reason. The children of the house and Jocko are boon companions, and of a summer afternoon enjoy a frolic together upon the lawn. One day someone threw a match down and the grass Ignited, making a little blaze. Jocko, saw it and stopped and looked, then glanced all around, and, seeing a piece of plank not far off, ran for it, crept cautiously to the fire, al I the time holding the plank as a shield between himself and the flame, then pressed it down and extinguished it . What child could have reasoned better and done more? Although, perhaps, no danger couldl have come from the fire, sti 11 no knows what the result might have been, and the monkey evidently believed. that prudence is the better part of valor.