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to leave her rope and return to her seat on the bacK 

 of a chair near the kitchen fire. 



The funny little Capucin monkey was as amusing as 

 ever with his nuts and pebble, using the latter in the 

 light of a hammer and smashing the nutshells with 

 wonderful certainty. The odd little creature has a 

 perfect passion for hammering, and had battered the 

 woodwork of his cage so severely that the keeper was 

 forced to take away the stone, and now lends it only 

 when it is wanted. Even the hard, angular shell of 

 the Brazil nut is broken by this clever little animal, 

 and the keeper told me that he — the monkey, to wit — 

 could hardly have a greater treat than to be given 

 a hammer and a board with a nail partly driven, so 

 that he might take the hammer and finish driving the 

 nail. 



The great anubis baboon sat sulky and impassive on 

 his perch, his chin sunk on his breast, his limbs 

 gathered up into marvellously small compass, and his 

 toes holding tightly to the bars. Offerings of nuts and 

 other dainties failed to propitiate his frigid dignity ; and 

 it was not until the keeper spoke to him that be would 

 condescend to notice the gifts that were freely proffered. 

 Even after taking the nuts and pieces of cake, he just 

 put them in his mouth, ascended again to his perch, 

 and resumed his former misanthropical attitude. Large 

 store of straw is placed in his cage, and when evening 

 approaches he retires to the farther corner of the cage, 

 creeps into the heap of straw, and with hands and feet 



