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red coat with high hat and cane. It may be inci- 

 dentally mentioned that, since his experience at the 

 first dinner on the yacht, he had been a perfect mod- 

 el in deportment in spite of frequent tempting offers 

 from the colle2:e bovs. 



Snowball went home with Edna to Virginia and 

 helped her work in her flower garden and later be- 

 came her chauffeur. Henry and William and the 

 monkey always came to see them during vacation. 



When their college courses were finished, Henry 

 became a Curator at the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory in New York and William a Professor of Nat- 

 ural History in one of the Virginia colleges. A few 

 months after his appointment, William married Ed- 

 na and took her to New York to spend the Christ- 

 mas holidays, and Snowball went along to carry 

 their hand baggage. 



The New York Academy of Sciences was holding 

 its annual banquet, at which reports of scientific 

 work completed during the year were being read. 

 High up among the distinguished guests at the head 

 of the table, with Henry and William and Edna, 

 sat Snowball and the monkev. Finally, the Chair- 

 man rose and said: 



^'Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish now to present 

 an important piece of work, the results of which 



