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then dragged my hand down to examine it again, and evinced a 

 strong desire to examine its internal anatomy by means of her 

 long, probe-like finger. . . . Susan is excessively jealous of 

 the attention shown by visitors to Sarah ; and Mr. Bartlett tells 

 me that when these two anthropoid ladies were first introduced to 

 each other the scene was comical in the extreme. Susan betook 

 herself into the middle of her cage, and set up all her hideous red 

 hair, evidently trying to make herself as big and as formidable- 

 looking as possible, like a cat when a dog comes suddenly round 

 a corner. An immense deal of monkey palaver and conversation 

 then took place, which might have been mistaken for the new 

 arrival giving the- latest news from the west of Africa, but 

 which really meant a challenge of defiance. Like boys newly 

 arrived at school, the object of these creatures was evidently to 

 see who was to be master, and the result of the last few hours has 

 evidently proved that ourang is to be commandant of the cage. 

 A lady who had come to visit the new arrival brought her some 

 grapes, etc. Susan immediately came forward to claim her share 

 of the grapes; but on Chimp also coming forward, she 

 retired at once, looking as disagreeable as a jilted young lady. 

 Greediness is a characteristic of Chimp, for when a grape 

 was given to her rival, she ran backward like a jibbing horse, 

 nearly the whole length of her cage, and danced up and down in 

 the most excited manner, all the time uttering cries which 

 reminded one strongly of a child some five or six years old 

 undergoing corporal punishment with a bit of birch rod. This 

 performance, Mr. Bartlett tells me, takes place every time this 

 ' naughty child '-like animal cannot immediately get what it wants. 

 These creatures are, in fact, continually playing with each other 

 the whole day ; and I saw a most interesting piece of manoeuvring 

 on the part of Susan to obtain, under false pretences, an apple 

 which lay within the range of Chimp's long arms. Susan 

 evidently had not pluck enough to come and claim the apple, which 

 was her rightful property, but endeavoured to steal it, which she 

 did by gradually rolling and playing with the chair up to the place 

 where the apple lay ; she then dropped ofE the chair and wriggled 

 herself towards it like a deer-stalker in a mountain gully; she 



