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biscuit. Twice did the chimpanzee place a biscuit just 

 beyond the monkey's grasp, and watch her trying to reach 

 it and once, when she was turning somersaults in the 

 further corner of the cage, he placed a piece through the 

 bars and sat watching it ; but as soon as the monkey ran 

 down towards it, snatched it hastily away. A second time 

 Miss Mona was too quick for him and he lost his biscuit ; 

 upon which he shook the bars of his cage and pouted like 

 a spoilt child. But soon he was swinging hither and 

 thither as blithely as if biscuits had never been invented. 

 As one watches these anthropoids one cannot but notice, 

 not without wonder and admiration, the great freedom of 

 motion possessed by the hind leg, which could almost be 

 swung round in a circle from the hip like the arm from, 

 the shoulder. There is no small advantage to a climber 

 in this supple freedom. 



In their large commodious quarters at the Berlin 

 Aquarium you may see the chimpanzees full of activity 

 swinging across the cage with the peculiar hand-over-hand 

 motion which is their most natural mode of progression. 

 A chimpanzee on the flat ground is like a swan walking. 

 He does not show at his best. Place the one among the 

 boughs of a forest, or the other on the broad face of a 

 lake, and they are at home and exhibit the poetry of 

 motion. I fell in love, too, with a chimpanzee at the 

 Berlin Zoo, and delighted in watching his placid enjoy- 

 ment as the kindly keeper washed his hands and face and 

 brushed his hair before he went to sleep, to dream perhaps 

 of luxuriant forests, his ancestral heritage. Still none of 

 the anthropoid apes I have seen is cleverer than our Sally, 

 who under Dr. Romanes' tuition knows the difference 

 between three straws and five, and black straws and white, 

 and who can enjoy a ham sandwich, but does not like the 

 mustard too thick, being still young and inexperienced. 



