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mess together and eat out of the same dish. His favourite playfellow 
was the dog, whose teasing and worrying was always borne, and returned 
with the utmost good humour and playfulness. As he grew up he 
became a very powerful animal, and in his rambles in the garden he 
would lay hold of the largest plantains, the stems of which he could 
scarcely embrace, and tear them up by the roots.” The late General 
A. C. McMaster gives an equally amusing account of his pet of this species 
which was obtained in Burmah. “Ada,” he writes, “is never out of 
temper, and always ready to play withany one. While she was with me, 
‘Ada’ would not eat meat in any shape; butI was told by one of the 
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ship’s officers that another of the same species, ‘ Ethel’ (also presented 
by me to the Committee of the People’s Park of Madras, and by them 
sent to England), while coming over from Burmah killed and devoured 
a large fowl put intoher cage. I do not doubt the £:/ding, for at that 
time ‘Ethel’ had not long been caught, and was a little demon in 
temper, but I suspect that, while attention was taken off, some knowing 
lascar secured the body of the chicken, and gave her credit for having 
swallowed it. ‘ Ada’s’ greatest delight was in getting up small trees ; even 
when she was a chubby infant I could, by merely striking the bark, or a 
branch some feet above her head, cause her to scramble up almost any 
