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want of affection, but from the confusion of intel- 

 lect, reason, and instinct, was given away to a 

 street musician, and shortly died of a horrible 

 stomach-ache produced from the inharmonious 

 groans of a barrel-organ, on which the monkey 

 was made to sit, wound persistently from beneath, 

 as that terrible instrument of unrest generally is, 

 when study or sleep have to be discomfited. 



I confess that reason and instinct are so nearly 

 allied, that it puzzles us all, monkeys with no tails 

 and monkeys with, to draw the line where one 

 ends (not the tail, but reason) and the other 

 begins ; still the study of the two is so beautiful 

 and so curious in the wondrous ramifications of 

 its varying mysteries of minds, that I am content 

 to solace and lose myself in a labyrinth that seems 

 as yet to offer no deliverance. 



