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appears to be taking no notice of anything, but when a visitor 
reaches forward to shake. hands with the orang, he dashes 
with lightning speed at his hat, and seizing it with a dexterous 
grasp whisks it off to the gymnastic bar. The sequel to these 
performances was not so pleasant, for me at least, as the per- 
formances themselves. I got tired after a time of having to . ~ 
pay for new hats every day, and I was reduced to the neces- 
sity of putting up a barrier between the apes and the public. 
Somali child with orang-outang. 
Even that, however, I found insufficient.. The public were 
in the habit of giving the creatures food, which was very un- 
wholesome, and on two occasions brought them in danger of 
their lives. To prevent this I finally had a glass wall set Bp 
to shut them off completely from visitors. mo dhe 
Moritz very easily becomes bored when the keeper: goes 
away ; and in order to relieve his feelings is much addicted to 
practical jokes. He is very fond of singling out the orang 
Jacob as a butt for his humour. When the latter: is off his 
