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which she does not at all like. One can not resist the fancy, 

 while watching her, cither that she was once a human be- 

 ing, or that she is trying to become one. 



5. Her friends are every human being who will take 

 notice of her, and a beautiful little Guazupita, or native 

 deer, a little larger than a roe, with great, black, melting 

 eyes, and a heart as soft as its eyes, who comes to lick one's 

 hand, believes in bananas as firmly as the monkey, and, 

 when she can get no hand to lick, licks the hairy mon- 

 key for mere love's sake, and lets it ride on her back, and 

 kicks it off, and lets it get on again and take a half turn 

 of its tail round her neck, and throttle her with its arms, 

 and pull her nose out of the way when a banana is coming, 

 and all out of pure love, for the two have never been intro- 

 duced to each other by man, and the intimacy between 

 them, like that famous one between the horse and the hen, 

 is of Nature's own making up. 



6. Very different from the spider-monkey in temper is 

 her cousin Jack, who sits, sullen and unrepentant, at the 

 end of a long chain, having an ugly liking for the calves of 

 passers-by, and ugly teeth to employ them. Sad at heart 

 he is, and testifies his sadness sometimes by standing holt 

 upright, with his long arms in postures oratorio, almost 

 prophetic, or, when duly pitied and moaned to, lying down 

 on his side, covering his hairy eyes with one hairy arm, 

 and weeping and sobbing bitterly. 



7. He seems, speaking scientifically, to be some sort of 

 Mycetcs or Howler, from the flat, globular throat, which 

 indicates the great development of the hyoid bono ; but, 

 hajunly for the sleep of the neighborhood, he never utters 

 in captivity any sound beyond a chuckle ; and lie is sup- 

 posed, by some here, from his burly, thick-set figure, vast 

 breadth between the ears, short neck, and general cast of 

 countenance, to have been, in a prior state of existence, a 

 man and a brother — and that by no means of negro blood 



