Hornbeck spots a monkey that someone has brought to town , and feigns conversation with it .
Hornbeck , a reporter for the Baltimore Herald , enters and in a soliloquy cruelly ridicules the people of Hillsboro .
reporter spots a monkey that someone has brought to town , and feigns conversation with it .
Hornbeck , a reporter for the Baltimore Herald , enters and in a soliloquy cruelly ridicules the people of Hillsboro .