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they skipped about, and hey yey yagh’d more fu- 
riously than ever. We have reason, however, to 
think, that all this proceeded more from a desire 
to please us than from any pleasure they had in it 
themselves; for one of them, who was an older 
man than any of the rest, on its being signified to 
him to sit down in order to have his picture taken, 
immediately took his seat very composedly, whilst 
the others were displaying all their antic feats. 
This old man appeared to be of a very facetious 
disposition, and a very great adept at mimickry ; 
for now and then, when his attention was drawn 
off to view the surrounding objects, it was signified 
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