DAREDEVIL DAVID NEVER STILL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 2

DAREDEVIL DAVID NEVER STILL.

CAPUCHIN MONKEY FULL OF MISCHIEF. A perky little capuchin monkey whn It came to the Small Mammal House at the ill December, has e : - ready the name of “David, the little Daredevil." The bad boy of the worst reformatory in the world could not rival this two feet of hairy mischief. When out of his cage with the rest for daily exercise he picks pockets, throws his tin at his keeper, raids every other cage, in the place and turns the inmates out, fights all comers on the slightest pretext, practises buck-jump-ing when he ought to be in bed, shows off his talents as a trapeze artist, and never keeps stilt for two consecutive minutes except to hatch out some hew His pranks are all the more surprising because of his monkish, rather than monkeyish, appearance, lie has a rare white front, and a little black patch on his head like a tonsure. At present he lives with two others —Puncho and Fluffy—or, rather, Puncho and Fluffy try their best to live with him. Having heard of Puncho's fame as a boxer, David squares up and tries tej. "put it across” Goliath all day long. r *