XXIV 



THE MONKEY TRIBE 



THE most desired and the most dreaded of 

 pets belongs to the race nearest the human in 

 many ways, our next of kin the four-handed. 

 Monkeys of all sorts, from the tiny specimen 

 who can hide between one's two hands up to 

 the savage gorilla himself, have been eagerly 

 sought as pets since the beginning of time, 

 or at least as far back as we can find out how 

 people lived. 



While our four-handed relatives are the 

 most amusing, they are, also, unfortunately, 

 the most troublesome of pets. The addition 

 of one of them to a family circle is almost in- 

 variably the cause of dissension. He is the 

 pet lover's delight, but just as certainly the 

 house-keeper's despair. The one feels that it 

 is cruel to confine to a cage a creature so ac- 

 tive and restless, while the other bemoans the 

 furniture injured, the bric-a-brac destroyed 



