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restless, and other monkeys impudent and cunning. They are of all 

 shades of color, and all shapes and sizes. Many are without tails, some 

 without stumps, and others with long tails of no great use, except to 

 afford fun to the mischievous. Others have long tails which they use 

 as another hand, to hang to the limb by; some have faces very human- 

 like, others look more like dogs. Some can go almost erect, others 

 go only on all fours ; some swing from limb to limb by their tails, or 

 holding together make bridges across streams for others to cross on. 



THE GORILLA A\D HIS FAMILY 



Some like fruit and others eat vegetables. All of them seem to have 

 a fondness for climbing, grasping, picking and stealing, for which 

 they have good hands with fingers and thumbs with wrists in front, 

 and hands, that is to say feet, with a great thumb-like toe behind. 

 The monkeys of the old world do not have long tails w'hich they can 

 use. These seem to have been invented for the American monkeys, who 

 have noses which are broad at the end, while the monkevs of the old 



