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arm. Mr. Bluecheeks grabbed the bars with his 

 two hands, looked me straight in the eyes, showed 

 his teeth, and jabbered at me, thus keeping my at- 

 tention upon his face while 



HE SLYLY REACHED OUT ONE LEG 



and grasped my overcoat with his hand-like foot. 

 The first I knew of his intentions was when my 

 overcoat was unceremoniously pulled from my arm. 

 Back of me there was a dry goods box or pack- 

 ing case, the boards of which were all loose, and 

 the nails partly or wholly shaken from the wood 

 so that the sides would have fallen out had they 

 not been held in place by a clothesline bound 

 about and knotted over the box. It was a large 

 packing case larger than a table, and realizing that 

 if the baboon once drew my overcoat through the 

 bars of its cage it would be of no further use to 

 me, I threw my portfolio on the packing case, so 

 that I might use both hands to rescue the coat 

 from 



MY FOUR-HANDED OPPONENT. 



After a struggle of five or more minutes I was 

 successful in not only gaining my coat but also in 

 arousing to the highest degree of excitement all 

 the other animals in the wareroom. 



They had been interested spectators and, when 

 the struggle for the possession of the coat was at 

 its height, one and all in the room 



