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the various courses which are served to them. They eat 
after the manner of human beings with spoons and forks, and 
they are very clever at ladling up their soup with the spoon. 
It is true that if they thought no one was looking, they would 
quickly revert to more expeditious methods, dispensing with 
the spoon and using their lips instead ; but a word from the 
Two orangs drinking soup. 
keeper immediately recalls them to the manners of civilisation, 
and the spoon is hastily seized once more. 
All the apes are of course thoroughly amenable to the 
control of the keeper. He knows how to make himself under- 
stood by them, and they on their part watch him attentively 
and carry out intelligently whatever instructions he delivers to 
them. Jacob and Rosa are especially amenable in this re- 
spect. They are very sensitive to verbal censure, and of 
