92 THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



this occasion our Veterinary Surgeon, Dr. W. Reid Blair, 

 worked (on the fifth day) for seven hours without intermission 

 to stupefy Suzette with chloroform, or other opiates, sufficiently 

 to make it possible to remove the baby without a fight with the 

 mother and its certain death. Owing to her savage temper all 

 the work had to be done between iron bars, to keep from 

 losing hands or arms, and the handicap on the human hand 

 was too great. Even when Suzette had received chloroform 

 for an hour and twenty minutes, and was regarded as half dead, 

 at the first touch of a human finger upon her thigh she instantly 

 aroused and sprang up, raging and ready for battle. 



The whole effort failed. To rope Suzette and attempt to 

 control her by force would have been sheer folly, or worse. 

 In such a struggle the infant would have been torn to pieces. 



The second one died as the first one did, and for an awful 

 week we were unable to gain possession of the decomposing 

 cadaver. Suzette knew that something was wrong, and she 

 realized the awful odor, but that idea of defense of her off- 

 spring obscured all others. In maintaining her possession of 

 that infant, nothing could surpass the cunning of that ape 

 mother. Will we ever succeed in outwitting her, and in getting 

 one of her babies alive into a baby incubator? Who can say? 



