Line 2.0.0 from a cage between decks by a pet

Line 2.0.1 baboon, and for two days there was no

Line 2.0.2 rest for the officers or crew. Parties

Line 2.0.3 of them would rush down on deck, pick

Line 2.0.4 up belaying pins or other handy ob

Line 2.0.5 jects, and quickly climb back into the

Line 2.0.6 rigging. Then when an officer or mem

Line 2.0.7 ber of the crew walked across the

Line 2.0.8 decks the animals would let fly their

Line 2.0.9 belaying pins.

Line 2.0.10 While the vessel was coming up the

Line 2.0.11 harbor, the captain hit upon a scheme

Line 2.0.12 to capture the monkeys. He secured

Line 2.0.13 a large quantity of molasses, mixed it

Line 2.0.14 with brandy and rum, and put several

Line 2.0.15 pans of the mixture where the apes had

Line 2.0.16 congregated. Soon there were 400

Line 2.0.17 monkeys staggering around the decks,

Line 2.0.18 and when they were helplessly drunk,

Line 2.0.19 the animals were picked up and placed

Line 2.0.20 back in the cage without further