DOHONG, THE ORANG XJTAN 119 



have a piece of blanket given him, and at one 

 time this led to frequent quarrels between 

 Polly and himself. It ended one day by the 

 blanket being split in two with the exception 

 of the hem on one side, and then, when Do- 

 hong finally got it, he put it round his neck 

 as he had always been used to do, folded the 

 two pieces in front of him and, with just 

 the hem round his neck and an absolutely 

 bare back, evidently thought he was warm 

 and comfortable. It is these little things in 

 the most intelligent animals which prove how 

 much below the human reasoning powers the 

 powers of the animals are. 



But during his last illness, when he be- 

 came too weak to do anything in the way of 

 mischief, his blanket was given back to him, 

 and there he lay huddled up in it and a pile 

 of straw, never moving until the time came 

 for his egg and milk, when he would put up 

 his arms in a pitiful imploring manner to his 

 keeper, James Reilly, or Ferdinand Ingle- 

 holm, like a sick child, and do his best to 

 take whatever they offered him. 



