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it exactly as if it had been her own, and a very pretty sight it was. 

 He soon grew large enough to travel on his own sturdy legs, at any 

 sudden alarm running quickly back to his nurse and clinging to her 

 with his sinewy fingers. 



When he strayed away out of her sight in the woods, it was 

 really pathetic to hear her bleatings and his answering cries. He 

 had gradually come to know me, and he treated us all with the great- 

 est gentleness. When he was three months old I began to give him 

 bananas, of which he was very fond, and he afterward became 

 accustomed to other fruits; but nothing ever pleased him like the 

 goat's milk. 



He learned very quickly, and at five months knew all objects in 

 my tent by name, bringing to me anything I called for, which was 

 certainly more than many children of two or even three years could 

 have done. But with the latter, development progresses with giant 

 strides after that age, while with an orang it ceases. What an 

 animal is at one year of age he always remains. 



H. B. G.— IS 



