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naturalist ; and tlie sort of cry those animals will 

 utter, from the smallest to the largest of the 

 class, will have the same origin and tendency, 

 and so will tlie method of their fighting. No 

 monkey, no matter what his size may be, can 

 ^^ roar"; nor do monkeys, large or small, fight 

 with their clenched jists. The fabulous pictures 

 of their walking with sticks and carrying off 

 women — a feat which, as an itinerant showman 

 used to say, ^^ fully accounted for the milk in 

 the cocoa-nut," — have long ceased to be regarded 

 as facts, because anyone who has really studied 

 natural history knows the habits of an animal 

 when he knows his class or genus. 



Travelling s^Dortsmen, as they call themselves, 

 would do well to remember that when they tell 

 the reading world about the exploits they have 

 succeeded in — exploits which there was no eye- 

 witness to corroborate — that, although we can't 

 say that they have not done the things they tell 

 us, we can safely swear that they did not shoot 

 ^^a full-grown elephant with a pea rifle," nor 

 ^' steer wounded hipj)opotami " in a rapid river 

 to the shore, when shot in the head and giddy, 

 by a handle cut by them on the instant with 



