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readily, and even submits to surgical operations — 

 in short, behaves very like a human patient in 

 similar circumstances. As his end approaches, 

 he becomes more gentle, and the nobler traits ol 

 his character stand out prominently ' (8). 



The New York Herald, in its issue of July 2, 

 igoi, contained an account of the death of Charle- 

 magne, a chimpanzee who died a short time before 

 at Grenoble, France. This anthropoid at the 

 time of his death was the most popular inhabitant 

 of the town. His popularity was due to his 

 good-nature and intelligence, and especially to the 

 fact that a few years before his death he had saved 

 a child from drowning in a well. The ape saw 

 the child fall, and without a moment's hesitation 

 climbed down the rope used for the buckets, seized 

 the child, and climbed out again by the same rope 

 by which he had descended. The people of the 

 town thought so much of him that they followed 

 his remains to the grave, and the municipal council 

 voted to erect a bronze statue to his memory. 



A heartless hunter — maybe one of those assassins 

 who fill the wilds with widows and orphans in the 

 name of Science — tells of the murder of a mother 

 chimpanzee and her baby in Africa. The mother 

 was high up in a tree with her little one in her 

 arms. She watched intently, and with signs of 

 the greatest anxiety, the hunter as he moved about 

 beneath, and when he took aim at her the poor 

 doomed thing motioned to him with her hand 

 precisely in the manner of a human being, to have 

 him desist and go away. 



