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and good conduct. His behaviour at meals (always a 

 trying time for the young) was quiet and mannerly. He 

 only took as much as he could handle gracefully and with 

 propriety. If nothing was given him, while others around 

 him were enjoying their fill, he did indeed look askance at 

 the dishes, and give a short resentful cough as each plate 

 was carried off by the negro boys ; or sometimes even seized 

 the arm of a passer-by to draw attention to his wants or 

 indicate his displeasure somewhat more forcibly. He was 

 seldom ill-humoured, and, even when he was chastised, he 

 never resented his punishment, but came up with a be- 

 seeching air, clinging to his master's feet and looking up 

 with an expressive air that disarmed all displeasure. 

 Altogether I think we may say that many a young gentle- 

 man who goes to Eton and gets into Parliament has worse 

 reports than that which we receive of the poor little 

 gorilla boy who died of a galloping consumption in the 

 Berlin Aquarium. And if you will inquire of Sally's 

 keeper, he will, I think, tell you that she is, unless she is 

 put out, good-tempered and affectionate. When she is 

 put out well ! well ! young ladies in all stations of life are 

 apt to lose their tempers sometimes. 



Near Sally's cage I beg her pardon near Miss Calva's 

 apartment in the Zoo there is, or was, an ordinary chim- 

 panzee. The story of the chimpanzee in captivity, like 

 that of most apes, generally ends soon and sadly. Con- 

 sumption too rapidly does its dread inevitable work. 

 What can be more touching than the death of Mafuca in 

 the Dresden Zoo ? " When her illness began," we learn, 

 " she became apathetic, and looked about her with a 

 vacant unobservant stare. Just before the end came she 

 put her arms round Schopf the director's neck, looked at 

 him placidly, kissed him three times, stretched out her 

 hand to him, and died." Poor little dumb cousin ! My 



