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Dozens of cylinders might be used this way, and only 

 one of them be found worthy of preservation, but even 

 then an ample reward for . days and weeks of work was 

 to be expected. 



Very interesting, indeed, is the method of obtaining a 

 record of these sounds. Acting on the general broad 

 principle that a bird who will not sing must be made to 

 sing, we may safely state that hungry monkeys, im- 

 patient for breakfast, are the most likely to say some- 

 thing equivalent to " Hurry up them cakes." An apple 

 is shown them, and as soon as their appetites are 

 whetted and the monkeys begin to cry and make re- 

 marks, the phonograph is brought into play. They do 

 not seem to mind the apparatus with its brass funnel 

 and its open mouth, so that their expressions, directly 

 over the big receiver of the phonograph, may be re- 

 corded on the revolving cylinder with the greatest ease. 



In a similar way the record of the monkey sound for 

 thirst may be taken down. The keeper pours out milk 

 into the pan in a niggardly manner, and when the poor 

 little chaps discover that there is barely enough for one, 

 they cry for "more." At once the phonograph is put in 

 position, and a second page in the simian vocabulary set 

 up in sounding type. Likewise we may send a monkey 

 or a whole cage full of them into an ecstasy of passion ; 

 we may let them screech, rave, scold, bounce about, 

 have paroxisms of anger, the revolving cylinder will 

 take in all the clamor in an unruflBled manner. 



Another way of obtaining records is to hang a mirror 

 on the horn of the phonograph, which induces the mon- 

 key to believe that another monkey is present and to 

 talk to him. If, moreover, the phonograph utters 

 sounds, the monkey, perhaps after some disconcert and 

 perplexity, as he does not know where to look for his 

 new friend, will begin to chatter with the monkey in the 

 looking glass, and to lavish caresses on him. If any- 



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