vI ANIMAL TRAINING AND INTELLIGENCE 161 
the four-handed folk, —the apes and monkeys, — 
among which exists a vast diversity of tempera- 
ment and tractability. Their emotional nature is 
highly developed, and this often leads to an un- 
certainty of temper, and a ferocity combined with 
enormous strength, as age advances, which inter- 
fere sadly with the work of the trainer. The 
higher anthropoid apes become wholly unmanage- 
able in advanced ‘life. The imitative faculties of 
monkeys are large, however, and it is these which 
are cultivated, the teacher adding as much dis- 
crimination as he can impart. 
It is hard to force these animals to fix their 
attention upon, or persevere in, any one thing; 
and it would seem that their minds are too bright, 
while lacking balance of judgment, for the trick- 
teacher’s purpose. Hence; in shows, nowadays, 
few monkeys are introduced except as rough- 
riders upon ponies, where they lend a comical 
element to the programme of the ring. Formerly 
their grotesque appearance and gestures were 
more taken advantage of. In France one may 
see still (or lately could) a troupe of monkeys 
managed as a part of a company of small trick 
animals, in a performance called “The Roman 
Orgy.” The manager was an eccentric genius, 
M. Corvi. Behind a table well provided with 
biscuits and nuts sit a row of them,—some 
dressed as monks, others in military style, and 
others in the classic toga. A little monkey, with 
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