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drinking of beer, grimacing at visitors, and Bob and this history 

 see her no more. 



Meanwhile Nanette and Bob were left together. He remained 

 contemptuous toward her, robbing her of her food and treating 

 her with indignity. Often, when others were looking, Bob would 

 show his authority over her by ostentatiously drawing up her 

 chain and nipping her in the neck ; but at other times, when no 

 one was watching, he would relax his dignity and the two would 

 _^ lie for hours in the sun- 



shine, each picking fleas 

 from the other's hair. 

 However, roughly as she 

 was treated, Nanette nev- 

 er showed resentment, 

 and seemed only too glad 

 to be the slave of her 

 royal Bob. 



At one time Bob had 

 treated Nanette with pe- 

 culiar severity, for which 

 reason Lady Jane gave 

 him a good beating. 

 Nanette, the gentle, took 

 his part, turned on the 

 lady, and would have se- 

 verely bitten her had sha 

 not been taken off. For 

 two months after, when- 

 ever the Lady Jane ap- 

 proached Nanette, she 

 would fly into a pas- 

 sion, scolding, trying to 

 bite, and showing every 

 sign of hate possible ta 

 the race of Macacus. 

 But Bob had only con- 

 tempt for feminine wrath 

 and its manifestations. 

 Whenever Nanette made any demonstration against the lady,. 

 Bob would seize her and bite her in the neck until she cried for 

 pain. But all this time she would not look at him, but kept her 

 wrathful eyes fixed on the lady, willing to suffer anything rather 

 than have Bob's feelings hurt. 



Nanette would often leap into the lap of her keeper, seeking 

 the caresses she did not always secure from Bob. This she would 

 do with the manners of a lapdog or a pampered cat. But Bob 



ASPIRATIONS. 



