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sympathetically associated with monkeys, has 

 been able to translate a number of their words 

 and to enter into slight communication with them. 

 Among the words he has been able to understand 

 are the words for 'alarm,' 'good- will,' 'listen,' 

 ' food,' ' drink,' ' monkey,' and ' fruit.' According 

 to him, the simian tongue has about eight or nine 

 sounds which may be changed by modulation into 

 three or four times that number, and each 

 different species or kind has its own peculiar 

 tongue slightly shaded into dialects. There may 

 be more discriminating students than Garner, but 

 few certainly who have approached their favourite 

 problem with more feeling and humanity. Every 

 one should read his beautiful book on ' The Speech 

 of Monkeys.' ' Among the little captives of the 

 simian race,' says he tenderly, in closing his 

 chapter on the emotional character of these 

 people, ' I have many little friends to whom I am 

 attached, and whose devotion to me is as warm 

 and sincere, so far as I can see, as that of any 

 human being. I must confess that I cannot 

 discern in what intrinsic way the love they have 

 for me differs from my own for them ; nor can I 

 see in what respect their love is less divine than is 

 my own.' 



Dogs are distinguished for their great intelli- 

 gence, the pre-eminence of the sense of smell, 

 fidelity to duty, nobleness of nature, patience, 

 courage, and affection. In all of these particulars 

 many individual dogs are superior to whole races 

 of men. Dogs are more sensitive to physical 



