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Jack's band. Little Jack skirmished round the cage three 

 or four times on three legs ; then, holding up his wounded 

 hand, gazed mournfully and piteously at it, every now and 

 then leaving off looking to make fiercer faces, and cock his 

 ears at Jemmy. Never since has Little Jack ventured his 

 hands outside the bars when a Jemmy fight came on. 



6. One of the funniest scenes that ever happened with 

 Jemmy was as follows : Some sea-side s]3ecimens had been 

 sent me, and among the sea-weed was a live shore-crab 

 about the size of a five-shilling piece. Little "Chick- 

 Chick," the marmoset, who will eat any quantity of meal- 

 worms, blue-bottle flies, etc., came down at once off the 

 mantel-piece and examined Mr. Crab, who was crawling 

 about on the floor. None of my animals had evidently 

 seen a live crab before. The monkeys were very much 

 frightened, and made the same cry of alarm as when I show 

 them a snake or the house-broom. Chick-Chick evidently 

 thought that the crab was a huge insect. The crab put 

 out his two nippers at full length and gave the marmoset 

 such a pinch that he retreated to the mantel-piece, and 

 from this safe height gazed down upon the still threatening 

 crab, uttering loud cries of " Chick, chick, chick ! " alter- 

 nated with his plaintive, bat-like, shrill note. 



7. Presently round the corner comes Mrs. Cat. The 

 cat evidently thought that the crab, which was gently 

 crawling about, was a mouse. She instantly crouched, head, 

 eyes, and ears all intent, as if trying to make up her mind 

 whether the crab was a mouse on which she ought to pounce 

 or not. Hearing the row caused by the crab and marmo- 

 set tight, up comes Jemmy in full cry, with tail cocked 

 well in the air. He also attacked the crab, but could not 

 make head or tail of him. He did not like the smell, still 

 less did he like the sundry nips in the nose that he received 

 from the crab's claws. A grand crab and Jemmy fight, 

 which lasted nearly half an hour, then took place, ending 



