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opportunity to scratch and even try to bite 

 her keeper. Her strength too was enough 

 to make anyone nervous. Twice her large 

 hands with their long, slim fingers tightened 

 round the keeper's arm with a deadly grip, 

 and once or twice it was as much as he could 

 do to take them off. 



She looked a most uncanny creature as she 

 sat there, being rubbed, one limb held at a 

 time and her jet black face with its keen 

 eyes looking weird and fierce. For Soko has 

 not the slightest indication of amiability in 

 her countenance. As a rule she is deadly 

 quiet with a sulky or indifferent manner, but 

 when annoyed her face puckers up, her brows 

 draw together in a peculiarly human fashion, 

 and with an unmistakable frown and scowl, 

 it becomes evident she is in a bad tem- 

 per. 



The massaging did not seem to have such 

 a pleasant effect upon her as upon Polly, for 

 she seemed to be trying to get the oil off her 

 body, and sat in a corner and sulked. 



But the funniest part was when August's 



