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ly seemed as if similar ideas prevailed among a certain part of the visitors, and 

 that class especially whose acquaintance with the forms of orthography had not 

 reached a familiar stage, seemed to find in the scientific name of the animal, 

 Anthropopithecus ?iiger, indications of a relationship to the humble man and broth- 

 er whose ancestors sprang from the same soil. 



But at last, in spite of tender care and attention. Eve became sick — poor 

 little thing, how she did suffer. Of course she ought to have, been a good and 

 grateful patient and have known that everything done for her was for her ultimate 

 benefit — they always do in the animal literature of the day — but she had read 

 little, and so was hardly to blame in following out the instincts of her nature. 

 She might have been expected to look appealingly into the eyes that bent over 

 her, but she did not; she ought to have pressed affectionately the hand that cut 

 the hair from off the region of her little stomach and gently applied a mustard 

 plaster to the affected part, but instead, she bit it savagely ^ and to crown all, 

 she was so little sensible of the soothing influence of that mustard plaster that it 

 took the united efforts of three men to keep it in place until its work was done. 



Alas for all the works of fancy ! a long experience of sick and suffering ani- 

 mals compels the conclusion that one of the things which is beyond the grasp of 

 mind to be found among the lower animals is surgery. 



And so Eve passed out from the familiar places of the " Zoo." Her funer- 

 al urn stands ranged on a shelf in that universal mausoleum of nature, the Acade- 

 my of Natural Sciences, and her "In Memoriam," by Professor Chapman, was 

 published in the Proceedings of that venerable institution. 



Adam was left alone to mourn, but to his shame be it said that although he 

 was inconsolable at first, so long as the dead body of his late companion was in 

 sight, he soon got over it, and in forty-eight hours not a trace of her seemed to 

 exist in memory, excepting that to. the day of his death, some months later, he 

 was afraid to sleep alone on the floor, where the two had always slept together, 

 and with the shades of night he followed out his ancestral habit, climbed as high 

 as he could get toward the roof, and there composed himself to peaceful slumbers. 



For some time the garden was without any specimen of the higher apes, un- 

 til in the autumn of 1879, a young orang-utan was safely received. 



There is something about the orang that irresistibly suggests a spider — one 

 of those red, hairy, long-legged spiders which one sees with an instinctive feel- 

 ing of repulsion. At no age can the animal be called handsome, and the old 

 males, covered with coarse, reddish-brown hair six or eight inches long, with a 

 huge protruding jaw and a mass of hardened skin on each cheek, are about as 

 unprepossessing as anything that nature has produced. "Topsey," however, as 

 is sufficiently indicated by her baptismal name, belongs to the fairer sex; her age 

 — probably for that reason, is unknown. When she arrived she was supposed to 

 be about two or three years old, but as the lapse of time has made hardly any 

 change in her personal appearance, save in the way of embonpoint, it is probable 

 that she was older, although she is certainly not half grown ; if, indeed, as has 



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