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 sugar-soaked rag. When he had seized the rag he could not pull out his hand. He did not have sense enough to let go the rag, so there he stuck till the Sahib's men came for him. The bottle was securely tied to a tree.

Then the men would tickle a large nerve on the monkey's elbow, or as the children say, would touch his crazy-bone, and he would let go the rag and his hand would come out of the bottle. But he was then a prisoner.

And, strange to say, the monkey did not learn the secret of this simple trap.

But it was not until the Sahib made his mesh corrals and made drives of the jungles that he secured large numbers of the jungle folk.

These corrals were made of rattan, which was woven in and out at some point