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they liked him as a good fellow and pretty playmate. 

 When he was first introduced to my little girl, who was 

 then six months old, he seemed perplexed, and observed 

 her with astonishment, as if speculating whether that lit- 

 tle bit of a creature was really a human being. At last 

 his mind was made up ; he touched her cheek with one 

 finger, and then offered her his hand in friendship. My 

 chimpanzee conversed very little with other animals ; 

 like the apes in general, he was afraid of the big ones, and 

 despised the smaller ones. He was always around us, 

 and we, on our side, did not make any difference between 

 him and a man. 



15. " The animal fell ill of the mumps, followed by 

 pneumonia. I had seen many sick chimpanzees, but 

 never one of them behaved as he did. I engaged two 

 competent physicians to take charge of him. He knew 

 them from the first day, allowed them to feel his pulse, 

 showed his tongue, and directed the hand of the attend- 

 ant doctor to the painful swelling, which had to be cut 

 open afterward, there being danger of suffocation. 



16. "The doctors would not use chloroform, out of 

 regard to the affection of the lungs; but, fearing the 

 chimpanzee would not keep quiet during the operation, 

 engaged four strong men to hold him. The sick animal 

 did not submit to that rough treatment, but excitedly 

 pushed the men aside, and then, without any compulsion 

 whatever, but in compliance with the fondling words of 

 his nurse, in whose lap he was sitting, offered his throat. 

 The operation was performed, the ape never flinching or 

 complaining. He felt afterward much relieved, and ex- 

 pressed his gratitude by pressing fervently the hands of 

 the physicians and kissing his nurse." 



