KEES THE BABOON 



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rest ; the dog taking care, however, to keep behind, so that 

 he might run no risk of finding Kees again on his back. 



Kees was horribly afraid of snakes, as many human 

 beings are, who have not the least dread of wild animals. 



LE VAILLANT AND KEES OUT HUNTING 



But even snakes did not fill him with such terror as his 

 own relations — nobody could guess why. At the mere 

 sight of an ape he would scream with fear, and, trembling 



