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make any pretensions to do to them as they would 

 themselves be done by. The monkey kept by 

 Romanes, already referred to, became so attached 

 to his master that he went into the wildest 

 demonstrations of joy whenever his master, after 

 an absence, came into the room. Standing on 

 his hind-legs at the full length of his chain, and 

 reaching out both hands as far as he could reach, 

 he screamed with all his might. His joy was so 

 hysterical that it was impossible to carry on any 

 kind of conversation until he had been folded in 

 his master's arms, when he immediately grew 

 quiet. 



' After I took this monkey back to the Zoological 

 Gardens,' says Romanes, 'and up to the time of 

 his death, he remembered me as well as the day 

 he was returned. I visited the monkey-house 

 about once a month, and whenever I approached 

 his cage he saw me with astounding quickness 

 indeed, generally before I saw him and ran to 

 the bars, through which he thrust both hands with 

 every expression of joy. When I went away he 

 always followed me to the extreme end of the 

 cage, and stood there watching me as long as I 

 remained in sight.' 



The following account of the attachment of a 

 male monkey for his murdered consort is a pitiful 

 tale of human inhumanity and of simian tender- 

 ness and devotion : 



' A member of a shooting-party killed a female 

 monkey, and carried her body to his tent under a 

 banyan-tree. The tent was soon surrounded by 



