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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



In such matters, our manners and customs are very different from 

 those which prevail in the tribe of Cercopithecus in Borneo. 



After a time, under protest, he let one young woman iead him 

 about by his chain, and refrained from open enmity ; but he 

 never gave her either trust or affection. Children he held in 

 utter abhorrence, for it was their delight to ridicule him and to 

 vex his dignity with sticks and clods of earth. When any of 



them came near 

 him, he would 

 jump at them, 

 hissing and scold- 

 ing, and often 

 only the strength 

 of his chain saved 

 them from in- 

 jury. 



When Bob 

 came from Kear- 

 ny Street his hair 

 was infested with 

 the small, louse- 

 like parasite ( HCR- 

 matopina quad- 

 rumanus) which 

 always abounds 

 where those of 

 his race are gath- 

 ered together. 

 Bob did not try 

 to conceal this 

 fact; he made it 

 the joy of his lei- 

 sure. A large part of his time was spent in searching his arms 

 and legs in quest of the insect. When he found or pretended to 

 find one, he would eat it with much appearance of satisfaction, 

 keeping up all the while a vigorous smacking of the lips. A 

 young entomologist became interested in this, and sought to 

 make for himself a collection of these insects from Bob's hair. 

 But while he made his explorations, putting his captures in a 

 small vial, Bob conducted a similar search among the hairs on 

 his friend's hand. The bystanders laughed heartily, but Bob 

 saw nothing funny about the affair. If one could judge by his 

 movements and the smacking of his lips, he was more successful 

 than the naturalist himself. But all this with Bob was simply 

 an excess of politeness. In his tribe of Cercopithecus it is the 

 height of courtesy for one individual to go over the head and 



BOB AND THE NAPA SODA. 



