WHEN the captain came home from India he brought a pet monkey, who, though very well-behaved in general, dearly loved tricks and pastimes. She was on the look out one morning for something in the shape of amusement when Annie, the housemaid, came running out with a message. " Now's my chance, " thought she, and off went in an instant the shawl from Annie's head. " Here, Jeanette, give me that!" cried the captain; but Jeanette was up a tree, and knowing no one could reach her there, she sat chattering and looking so comical in the shawl which she put on, that even Annie, when her fright was over, could not help laughing ; and so for this time Miss Jeanette escaped the punishment which her master threatened her with as he shook his stick.
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