There are usually three men in a monkey show troupes, one to carry the monkey and its pole, one to carry and look after the other properties and one to lead the sheep and the little dog, usually a poodle of sorts. The monkey is always clad in a little red coat and, besides doing various trapeze acts on the long pole, masquerades about wearing the masks or hats of various well-known figures on the Chinese stage, going to the box in which they are contained and donning the correct one according to the orders of its master, who beats the gong and tells the audience what it is supposed to be doing. It also imitates a country labourer pushing a wheel does various ihe pushing round of the upper grinding stone of a miniature mill with iis nose, rolling over on its back and sitting up and ug with its forepaws. The star turn, however, is when the monkey rides the sheep. Mounted on the latter, it is led some distance away from where one of the men stands with a basket of boiled beans. The sheep is then turned loose and gallops at top speed toward the basket of beans. the monkey clinging on de for all ihe world like hurdle This perform an peated several times, never fails to "bring the house down" and loosen the pockets of the delighted spectá-
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