He lay writhing in pain. His last night, he had no doubt.
Jack, the monkey whose antics at street corners had provided both of them with their daily bread after he lost his strength to work, stood chained at an arm’s length.
His only worry now was Jack.
He sighed in relief when his fumbling hands succeeded, after many attempts, in taking the chain off Jack.
When the van sped away with the body in the morning, Jack, sitting among the foliage of a nearby tree, followed it with moist eyes.
Jack, the monkey whose antics at street corners had provided both of them with their daily bread after he lost his strength to work, stood chained at an arm’s length.
His only worry now was Jack.
He sighed in relief when his fumbling hands succeeded, after many attempts, in taking the chain off Jack.
When the van sped away with the body in the morning, Jack, sitting among the foliage of a nearby tree, followed it with moist eyes.
