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nicely, each time watching Polly as if to see 

 how she did it. But his keeper was not satis- 

 fied with him, for he would insist each time 

 his cup was empty, on turning it upside down 

 on his flat nose, and then making grimaces 

 which meant that he had not had enough. 

 The bananas were covered over with a cloth, 

 but when the keeper's back was turned the 

 cloth was off in the twinkling of an eye, and 

 the banana was not to be seen. 



I watched the difference in the two ani- 

 mals. Polly, quick, sharp, alert, her sleek 

 black hair parted neatly in the middle, her 

 large, wide ears, and her quick, bright eyes 

 glancing in all directions; Dohong, his red 

 hair growing upwards and forming a ring 

 round his head, his tiny and well shaped ears, 

 his calm, steady eyes; quiet, reserved, digni- 

 fied, he did not lose sight of anything that 

 was going on, especially me, whom he always 

 seemed to regard as a sort of curiosity. They 

 only resembled one another in their flat noses, 

 their long, wide, mobile upper lips, their long 

 arms and their muscular strength. 



