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the "left-hand half -nelson" as well as Glass, and he knew the 

 following words, perfectly: "Right, left, half -nelson, strangle, 

 head up, nose under arm, and hammer-lock." 



Glass declared that this bear was more intelligent than any 

 lion, or any other trained animal ever seen by him. He was 

 wise in many ways besides wrestling, — in his friendship with 

 Glass, with other bears, with other men, and with a dog. Ee 

 obeyed all orders willingly, even permitting Glass to take his 

 food away when he was eating; but he would not stand being 

 punished with a whip or a stick! In response to that he would 

 bite. However, he generously permitted himself to be held 

 down and choked, as a punishment, after which he would be very 

 repentant, and would insist upon getting into his partner's 

 lap, — to show his good wiH. 



Glass was enthusiastically certain that Christian could 

 reason independently from cause to effect. He declared that 

 his alertness of mind was so pronounced it was very rarely 

 necessary to show him a second time how to do a given thing. 



Training an Adult Savage Monkey. Once we had a 

 number of Japanese red-faced monkeys, and one of the surplus 

 adult males had a temper as red as his face. Mr. Wormwood, 

 an exhibitor of performing monkeys, wished to buy that animal; 

 but I declined to sell it, on the ground that it would be im- 

 possible to train it. 



At that impHed challenge the trainer perked up and in- 

 sisted upon having that particular bad animal; so we yielded. 

 He wished him for the special business of turning somersaults, 

 because he had no tail to interfere with that performance. 



Two months later Mr. Wormwood appeared again. " Yes," 

 he said, but not boastfully, "/ trained him; but I came mighty 

 near to giving him up as a bad job. He was the hardest subject 

 I ever tackled; but I conquered him at last, and now he is work- 

 ing all right." 



A really great number of different kinds of animals have 

 been trained for stage performances, running the scale aU the 



