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Feb. 28 A rewarding pat for the monkey from her m, aster after a morning's coconut picking. Madame Monkey Works For Her Living In Sumatra:As A Coconut Collector Sue Earns A Human A Human Worker's Wage: Sumatra is an island full of monkey of all shapes, colours and sizes. The natives have long taken advantages of this and train female captive monkeys today de a useful day's work for their keep. Best (the only in fact) job a monkey can do is to use his skill in climbing trees to pick their coconuts which are sold for their Copra. Females only can be turned for this work as the male of the species is too fiorce. Any monrning early one sees in Sumatran towns such as Padang or Bukit Tinggi, a native walking along with his monkey on a lensh. He solicits custom from ahouseholder and a bargain is struck for the fuse of his monkey to fetch the coconuts down for the owner to sell. The monkey has to be trained for the work wien young to sell. The monkey has to be trained for the work when young and will live and work for many years. Usual fee is one Rupiah (one-tenth of a wrokman's daily wage) for a tree. Thus the monkey can carn a normal workers ware for her master

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