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and further sweetened it with sugar. He watched me with some 
impatience, and when I gave him the glass he raised it with his 
hands to his lips, and drank a very little. It was not to his taste, 
however, for he set down the glass, almost as full as he had taken 
it up; and yet he was thirsty, for I caused a tea-cup with some 
sugared warm milk and water to be handed to him, and he took up 
the cup and drained it to the last drop. 
«<T presented him with a cocoa-nut, to the shell of which some of the 
husk was still adhering: the tender bud was just beginning to push 
forth—this he immediately bit off and ate. He then stripped off some 
of the husk with his teeth, swung it by the knot of adhering husk- 
fibres round his head, dashed it down, and repeatedly jumped upon 
it with all his weight. He afterwards swung it about and dashed it 
down with such violence that, fearing his person might suffer, I had 
it taken away. A hole was afterwards bored through one of the 
eyes, and the cocoa-nut was again given to him. He immediately 
held it up with the aperture downwards, applied his mouth to it, and 
sucked away at what milk there was with great glee. 
“As I was making notes with a pencil, he came up, inquisitively 
looked at the paper and pencil, and then took hold of the latter. 
Before I gave it up, I drew the pencil into the case, foreseeing that 
he would submit the pencil-case to examination by the teeth. Im- 
mediately that he got it into his possession, he put the tip of his 
little finger to the aperture at the bottom, and having looked at it, 
tried the case with his teeth. 
“While his attention was otherwise directed I had caused a 
hamper containing one of the Pythens to be brought into the room 
and placed on a chair not far from the kitchen dresser. The lid 
was raised, the blanket in which the snake was enveloped was 
opened, and soon after Tommy came gamboling that way. As he 
jumped and danced along the dresser towards the basket, he was all 
gaiety and life. Suddenly he seemed to be taken aback, stopped— 
then cautiously advanced towards the basket, peered or rather craned 
over it—and instantly with a gesture of horror and aversion, and the 
ery of Hoo! hoo! recoiled from the detested object, jumped back 
as far as he could, and then sprang to his keeper for protection. He 
was again put down, his attention diverted from the basket, and, 
after a while, tempted to its neighbourhood by the display of a fine 
rosy-cheeked apple, which was at last held on the opposite rim of 
the hamper. But no—he would evidently have done a good deal 
to get at the apple; but the gulf wherein the serpent lay was to be 
passed, and after some slight contention between hunger and horror, 
off he went and hid himself. [ then covered up the snake, and after 
luring him out with the apple, placed it on the blanket—No. I then 
shut down the lid—still the same desire and the same aversion. I then 
had the hamper, with the lid down, removed from the chair on which 
it had been placed to another part of the room. The apple was again 
shown to Tommy and placed on the lid. He advanced cautiously, 
looking back at the empty chair and then at the hamper: he ad- 
yanced further with evident reluctance, but when he approached 
