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perched on the manger, looking as happy as a monkey could 

 look. He really was a pretty fellow : his bright eyes 

 sparkled like two diamonds from beneath his deep-oet eye- 

 brows ; his teeth were of the most pearly whiteness, and 

 of these, through pride or a wish to intimidate, he made 

 a formidable display on the entrance of visitors. His hands 

 were certainly not similar to those of fair Eosamond of 

 Woodstock renown, but more like the shriveled and dried- 

 rrp palms of the old monks of St. Bernard, whose mortal 

 remains are made an exhibition of in that far-famed con- 

 vent. A more wicked pair of pickers and stealers, how- 

 ever, never graced the body of man or monkey. 



5. His tail, which had now recovered its good looks, 

 gave additional charms to his personal appearance, and, 

 moreover, was most useful, inasmuch as it performed the 

 office of a hand, giving to the owner three or five of 

 these useful members. With this he could cling on to the 

 bar of the rack above the manger and swing himself about, 

 a perfect living pendulum. Well, too, he knew the use 

 of it. If a nut or apple thrown to him lodged just out of 

 reach of his hands or feet, he would run to the full length 

 of his chain, turn his face so as to get as much length 

 as possible, stretch out this member, and pull toward him 

 the coveted delicacy. If pursued, moreover, and the chain, 

 dangling after him, got in his way, he would invariably 

 coil his tail around the links and carry it high over his 

 head, out of the way of his spider-like legs. 



C. After a considerable amount of bargaining, Jacko 

 was bought, and transferred — chain, tail, and all — to his new 

 English master. At the hotel Jacko was secured by being 

 chained in a little closet adjoining the bedroom, and when 

 I returned, after a half-hour's absence, the paper was all 

 torn from the walls. The pegs were all loosened, and the 

 individual peg to which his chain had been fastened torn 

 completely from its socket. An unfortunate garment 



