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certain ; although, on the whole, she was good-humored and fond of her keepers, 

 with whom she was never tired of a kind of bantering play, which was kept up at 

 intervals almost continually. By singing in a peculiar kind of monotone, in imi- 

 tation of her own utterance, her keepers were usually able to induce her to go 

 through a series of remarkable actions, the meaning of which is not very apparent. 



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First she would shoot out her lips into a tubular form, uttering at the same time a 

 weird kind of howling note, interrupted at regular intervals. The pauses would, 

 however, gradually become shorter and shorter, while the sing-song cry became 

 louder and louder, until it finally culminated in a series of yells and screams, not 

 unfrequently accompanied with a stamping of the feet, and a violent shaking of the 



