PLAGUE OF MONKEYS
Certain parts of Delhi have been suffering from a plague of monkeys. The only method that has been tried of getting rid of the pests is to trap them and send them off by rail to some distant part on the banks of a river. But, like cats, they find their way back again, and the authorities have paid the trappers in vain. The idea of shooting or killing the monkeys is, of course, quite repugnant to Hindu sentiment, which, however, does not go so far as to object to them being trapped, beaten, or frightened. In the most sacred cities such as Benares or Puri, Hindu shopkeepers delight in baiting a monkey caught in the act of thieving. Sometimes a captured monkey is put in a bag and dowsed in a tank amid the cheers of the crowd, but it is always set at liberty in the end, for no Hindu is-prepared-to have its death on his conscience,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1933, Page 14
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162PLAGUE OF MONKEYS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1933, Page 14
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