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the "left-hand half -nelson" as well as Glass, and he knew the 

 following words, perfectly: "Right, left, half -nelson, strangle, 

 head up, nose under arm, and hammer-lock." v 



Glass declared that this bear was more intelligent than anjA 

 lion, or any other trained animal ever seen by him. He was/ 

 wise in many ways besides wrestling, in his friendship with 

 Glass, with other bears, with other men, and with a dog. He 

 obeyed all orders willingly, even permitting Glass to take his 

 food away when he was eating; but he would not stand being 

 punished with a whip or a stick! In response to that he would 

 bite. However, he generously permitted himself to be held 

 down and choked, as a punishment, after which he would be very 

 repentant, and would insist upon getting into his partner's 

 lap, to show his good will. * 



Glass was enthusiastically certain that Christian could j 

 reason independently from cause to effect. He declared that/ 

 his alertness of mind was so pronounced it was very rarely 

 necessary to show him a second time how to do a given thing. 



Training an Adult Savage Monkey. Once we had a 

 number of Japanese red-faced monkeys, and one of the surplus 

 adult males had a temper as red as his face. Mr. Wormwood, 

 an exhibitor of performing monkeys, wished to buy that animal; 

 but I declined to sell it, on the ground that it would be im- 

 possible to train it. 



At that implied challenge the trainer perked up and in- 

 sisted upon having that particular bad animal; so we yielded. 

 He wished him for the special business of turning somersaults, 

 because he had no tail to interfere with that performance. x 



Two months later Mr. Wormwood appeared again. "Yes," \ 

 he said, but not boastfully, "/ trained him; but I came mighty 

 near to giving him up as a bad job. He was the hardest subject ; 

 I ever tackled; but I conquered him at last, and now he is work-/ 

 ing all right." 



A really great number of different kinds of animals have 

 been trained for stage performances, running the scale all the 



