A MONKEY'S LOVE OF SUGAR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XXII, 25 November 1899, Page 991

A MONKEY'S LOVE OF SUGAR.

A very funny story is told in the “Youth's Companion” of a pet monkey to whom was given a lump of sugar in a tightly-corked glass bottle. The monkey was very fond of suga, and the sight of this lump greatly excited him. He tried every way that he could to get at it. twisting himself around the bottle. watching it slyly for a long time, then jumping on it suddenly, as if he thought he could catch it unawares, snapping at it through the glass as if he must reach it, but all to no purpose. He would sit and look at it • for hours at a time, as if he were trying to think of some way to reach it. and at such times his face would express the greatest sadness, as if there was no use trying to be happy as long as that lump of sugar couldn’t be had. Sometimes he would tilt the bottle up to drink out the sugar, and then would make a quick spring to catch it as it fell back to the bottom. But he couldn’t get it till one day a jar of bananas that stood on the table was knocked over and broken, the fruit rolling in all directions. This seemed to lx 1 just the hint the monkey needed, for almost at once he seized the teazing bottle, lifted it high, and threw it to the floor with great force. Of course it broke, and of course the monkey seized the lump and munched it with great satisfaction.