He sent for his gun, and shot it dead with a ball.
The very next day, sir, he had a severe attack of fever, which carried him off in three days.

During this time he frequently called out in terror, 'Save me from that monkey! save me from that monkey!' -- pointing to the part of the room in which he _saw him_.

The monkey killed Asgur Allee Khan, sir; and no man ever escapes death or misery who wilfully kills one.

Moomtaz-od Dowla might, sir, have been now King of Oude had his father not shot that monkey." "But I thought," said I, "it was the _hanoomaun_, or long-tailed monkey, that was held sacred by the Hindoos ?"--"Sir," said Bukhtawur Sing, "both are alike sacred.* Nuseer-od Deen Hyder, the predecessor of Mahommed Allee Shah, went one day shooting in the dilkhoosha park.
Several of the long-tailed monkeys came and sat upon a mango-tree near him.

He could not resist the temptation, and shot several of them, one after another, with ball.