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do the same ; but it shows that animals, whom 

 lordly and self-assuming man looks down upon, have 

 some points about them that deserve admiration. 



I don't think that School Boards have been intro- 

 duced among baboons, for the reason that they cannot 

 count correctly. Thus, if you want to shoot them, 

 the best plan to adopt is to enter a mealie garden, 

 in parties of four or five, upon which they are in 

 the habit of making depredations, when one should 

 drop behind and secrete himself ; and the baboons, 

 not being able to distinguish between four and five, 

 return to the scene of their spoliation, unconscious 

 that a latent enemy has been left behind. This plan, 

 when adopted at dusk, is generally successful. I have 

 never practised shooting these interesting animals in 

 this way ; but then I am neither a Moonlighter nor 

 a Home Ruler. 



The children of baboons are brought up to in- 

 dustrious habits ; their mothers at an early age take 

 them forth and explain to them what they should 

 and should not eat, and where they should seek 

 for their support. Onions and vegetables of a 

 garlic-like savour are their favourite food, and such 

 being the case, I should imagine that the parents 



