SACRED BABOONS. 



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been caught on the wrong side of the cemetery-wall 

 and by their screams had attracted a swarm of two- 

 handed and four-handed sympathizers. Some of the 

 latter had taken refuge in the sexton's lodge, and when 

 the mob had been persuaded to withdraw the irate 

 official closed the lodge-door and attacked the intruders 

 with a fury that defeated its own object, for the horrified 



THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PATIENCE. 



animals now burst through the windows and escaped 

 with yells that came very near causing a new revolt. 



Muhammed Baber alone was a match for the baboons. 

 When they plundered his palace-garden he imprisoned 

 them as fast as he could catch them, till the Brahmins 

 volunteered to surround the garden with a high wall 

 of smooth and absolutely perpendicular masonry. That 



