She ran twice round the room, and then sunk on the floor in hysterics.

We lost no time in hastening to her assistance; but the warlike Jocko, still sitting upon her, refused to permit one of us to approach.

There he sat, turning from side to side, showing his sharp, white teeth, and uttering from time to time the most menacing and diabolical sounds.
"What the deuce shall we do ?" cried Dartmore.
"Do ?" said Vincent, who was convulsed with laughter, and yet endeavouring to speak gravely; "why, watch like L.Opimius, 'ne quid respublica detrimenti caperet.'" "By Jove, Pelham, he will scratch out the lady's beaux yeux," cried the good-natured Dartmore, endeavouring to seize the monkey by the tail, for which he very narrowly escaped with an unmutilated visage.

But the man who had before suffered by Jocko's ferocity, and whose breast was still swelling with revenge, was glad of so favourable an opportunity and excuse for wreaking it.

He seized the poker, made three strides to Jocko, who set up an ineffable cry of defiance, and with a single blow split the skull of the unhappy monkey in twain.