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the child said that the baboons had been very kind to 

 him, and that seeing he did not like their own favourite 

 food of scorpions and spiders, had given him roots and 

 gum and wild grapes, while, when they came to a spring, 

 they never thought of drinking till he had had his fill. 

 No wonder he missed the good manners of the baboons 

 when he came back to his native Namaquas. 



