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sion of this appendage, but rather that it was evidently a 

 part of his anatomy of which the young puppy was not a 

 little proud, and that it was here that the point of connec- 

 tion occurred between him and the capuchin. The latter 

 was chained to a ring which slid up and down a long pole, 

 on the top of which Master Cap would sit and grin 

 horribly at the dog. No puppy with any sense of dignity 

 and in little folk the sem>e of dignity is often strongly 

 developed could stand this ; and Nip plainly intimated in 

 sharp tones his very poor opinion of the capuchin's im- 

 polite manners. Tired at last of remonstrating thus at 

 the bottom of the pole, Nip marched off wagging his tail in 

 the lordliest fashion. Down slid Cap in a twinkling; 

 seized the noble appendage ; gave it a wrench round, a 

 twist, a twirl and a final tug, and was up the pole again 

 before the offended puppy could recover any semblance 

 of his lost dignity. Indeed he was so surprised and scared 

 that, as my friend briefly expressed it, " he quit." 



To the American group of monkeys belong the pretty 

 little squirrel monkeys, and the curious howler so called 

 from his voice, to which, in the male, resonance is given by 

 a hollow bone at the root of the tongue. In the rolled ox- 

 tongue you eat for breakfast, you may have sometimes 

 come across unwelcome little bones. These are part of the 

 hyoid or tongue apparatus, which is seldom very large in 

 mammalian animals. But in the howler one of the bones 

 is blown out into a great hollow bulb, as you may see 

 for yourself in the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



To the American monkeys but to a distinct family of 

 them also belong the marniozets pretty little South 

 American animals differing in many respects from the or- 

 dinary monkeys especially in the paw-like character of 

 the hand, with a claw in place of a nail on the thumb, and 



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