XIV 



THE MIND OF A MONKEY 



T IZZIE was first seen in a store on Market 

 -■—'Street, San Francisco, where she was confined 

 in a cage with a small puppy which was put in for 

 company. She was a specimen of bonnet monkey, 

 Pithecus sinicus, and she had been recently imported 

 from India, so her owner averred, but during her 

 short captivity she had come to be quite tame and 

 tractable. A few days later she became the prop- 

 erty of the University of California, and was kept 

 in a cage especially constructed for her reception 

 in a sort of storeroom belonging to the department, 

 of zoology. Owing perhaps to the strangeness of 

 her new surroundings, or to the loss of her old as- 

 sociates, Lizzie frequently gave vent to a plaintive 

 cry, but she seemed to be appeased when any one 

 came near. When let out of her box she began to 

 scamper about, climbing up tables and other objects, 

 and examining things critically all about the room. 

 If approached she would often utter a sound resem- 

 bling a bark and stand with her mouth open in a 

 threatening attitude, at the same time being on the 

 alert to make her escape. She proved to be re- 

 markably agile, even for a monkey, and very quick 



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