THE CAPE BABOON OR BAVIAN 



dearly that, poor fellow, he worked himself almost 

 to death. Wide told me that sometimes he would 

 not cease pumping until he fell exhausted. The 

 moment he recovered his breath he went at it again 

 as vigorously as ever. 



One day a railwayman quarrelled with Wide and 

 made offensive remarks, whereupon Jack jostled 

 the man off the platform after the manner of a 

 footballer at Soccer, and defied him to return. The 

 man wisely retreated. 



On another occasion a burly railway foreman in 

 Sunday attire began playing with Jack, and started 

 to hustle him over the edge of the platform. Jack 

 entered into the spirit of the game, and shouldered 

 the man so violently off the platform that he fell 

 heavily. Rising, he seized a stick, and, with an 

 oath, advanced threateningly on the baboon. Quick 

 as thought Jack picked up a dirty coal-sack and be- 

 laboured his antagonist so soundly that he, too, very 

 wisely retreated. 



A gentleman told me how he watched Jack ad- 

 justing the trolley on the rails in front of his master's 

 cottage. This job completed, he went into the 

 cottage for Wide's walking-stick, which had been 

 forgotten, and, on emerging, he carefully locked 

 the door and handed both key and stick to his 

 master, who was sitting on the trolley. 



When Jack was first employed to work the levers 

 at the signal station, passengers raised a strong 

 protest on the score of risk of accident, but the 



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