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when at any subsequent time the mirror was placed upon 

 the floor. 



From the first time that he saw me, this monkey took 

 as violently passionate an attachment to rne as that which 

 he took to my mother. His mode of greeting, however, 

 was different. When she entered the room after an 

 absence, his welcome was of a quiet and contented cha- 

 racter ; but when I came in, his demonstrations were posi- 

 tively painful to witness. Standing erect on his hind legs 

 at the full length of his tether, and extending both hands 

 as far as he could reach, he screamed with all his strength, 

 in a tone and with an intensity which he never adopted 

 on any other occasion. So loud, indeed, were his rapidly 

 and continuously reiterated screams, that it was impossible 

 for any one to hold even a shouting conversation till I 

 took the animal in my arms, when he became placid, with 

 many signs of intense affection. Even the sound of my 

 voice down two flights of stairs used to set him screaming 

 in this manner, so that whenever I called at my mother's 

 house I had to keep silent while on the staircase, unless 

 I intended first of all to pay a visit to the monkey. 



It has frequently been noticed that monkeys are very 

 capricious in forming their attachments and aversions ; 

 but I never knew before that this peculiarity could be so 

 strongly marked as it was in this case. His demonstra- 

 tions of affection to my mother and myself were piteous ; 

 while towards every one else, male or female, he was either 

 passively indifferent or actively hostile. Yet no shadow of 

 a reason could be assigned for the difference. My sister, 

 to whom animals are usually much more attached than 

 they are to me, used always to be forbearingly kind to this 

 one taking all his bites, &c., with the utmost good 

 humour. Moreover, she supplied him with all his food, 

 and most of his playthings, so that she was really in every 

 way his best friend. Yet his antipathy to her was only 

 less remarkable than his passionate fondness of my mother 

 and myself. 



Another trait in the psychology of this animal which 

 is worth observing was his quietness of manner towards 

 my mother. With 7ne, and indeed with every one else, his 



