deavors with his long arms to take it and finding 

 this of no avail tried with his legs (or, should I 

 say in the case of quadrumana, posterior arms?), 

 which, of course, were shorter. Finding himself 

 thus nonplussed, he hesitated; but after a few 

 moments' apparent reflection his mind was made 

 up. He retired into his bedchamber, whence he 

 at once returned, dragging some of the straw 

 with him. This he then twisted roughly together 

 into a primitive sort of rope, and taking the two 

 ends in his hand pushed his arm through the bars 

 and "fished" for the bread with the bight or 

 loop. After one or two misses he caught the 

 prize and triumphantly drew it toward him. 



Now, I do not wish to depreciate the intelli- 

 gence of other orang-utans and chimpanzees 

 at the London Zoo, who learn to count straws 

 and exhibit proofs of self-abnegation in taking 

 small pieces of apple whilst leaving the larger 

 ones for the keeper ; but as an example of the un- 

 tutored and deliberate exercise of the reasoning 

 faculty I think my record occupies a higher plane. 

 Indeed, many human beings, and perhaps a very 

 large proportion of them, vain as we are of our 



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