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porated societies and multitudes of secular and clerical mendicants ; 

 and Sir Emerson Tennent estimates that the produce of fully ten per 

 cent of all the stipends of a most charitable population of one hundred 

 and sixty millions is consecrated to the support of lazy or mischievous 

 brutes. 



Like Italian lazzaroni, city baboons live in cliques clannish com- 

 munities, very exclusive in times of scarcity, and always rather dis- 



Fig. 6. Four-handed Lazzaroni. 



inclined to enlarge their membership except by natural increase and 

 advantageous alliances, as with fat house-baboons with a roving dis- 

 position. Four-handed vagrants are promptly stopped and cross- 

 examined : no mercy for the homeless stranger suspected of specu- 

 lating upon a share of their scanty sportules, while the household 



