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wings and tail by fluttering and jumping about, almost 

 living without food, or throwing the food about on the 

 bottom of its cage, such determined resistance does this 

 little bird sometimes display to being kept a prisoner ; yet, 

 on the other hand, we find other individuals of the same 

 species, caught on the same day, in the same locality and 

 under the same circumstances, and treated alike in every 

 particular, exhibit a mild and gentle disposition, take 

 readily to the food offered, soon become perfectly tame, 

 come on the hand without fear, and sing night and day 

 for many weeks. Such are the well-known facts to all 

 persons who have taken the pains and trouble to keep 

 in a state of captivity this much-admired and well-known 

 songster. 



A remarkable and strikingly illustrative example of 

 this kind is well known to the writer. With reference to 

 the wonderful performing monkeys so frequently exhibited 

 in the streets of London and elsewhere, few persons are 

 at all aware that the men who exhibit these intelligent 

 and well-trained animals have had nothing whatever to 

 do with their first teaching. The fact is that the teaching 

 of performing monkeys is a profession, and the persons 

 most skilful in the art have a school for the training and 

 teaching the various kinds of performance these animals 

 are intended to go through in after life. 



The secrets and mysteries of this profession are most 

 carefully guarded, for the business is one of great profit, 

 for a monkey whose value when untaught is but a few 

 shillings, when properly trained and well educated, will sell 

 readily for £50. 



It is a well-known fact that many monkeys are incapable 

 of being taught, and it not unfrequently happens that 

 the teachers, after having purchased a stock of young 

 monkeys on their arrival in this country, soon discover 



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