It’s near the beginning of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The family is traveling by car and when they stop to eat there’s a chained pet monkey in a chinaberry tree picking its fleas and eating them. The monkey scrambles to the highest branch when the kids run toward it screaming with delight. There’s also a cat named Pitty Sing that the grandmother has smuggled in a picnic basket against her son’s wishes.
I’m going to have to go back and revisit those stories. Thanks for the reminder!