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After the lapse of eight or ten days I had not been able 

 to reinstate myself in his good graces or to induce him to 

 accept anything from me. At this juncture I resorted to 

 harsher means of bringing him to terms ; I threatened him 

 with a rod. At first he resented this ; but at length he 

 yielded, and merely through fear he came down from his 

 perch. When finally induced to approach, he placed the 

 side of his head on the floor, put out his tongue, and 

 uttered a plaintive sound having a slightly interrogative 

 inflection. At first this act quite defied interpretation ; 

 but during the same period I was visiting a little monkey 

 called Jack, and in him I found a clue to the meaning of 

 this conduct. For strangers, Jack and I were very good 

 friends. He allowed me many liberties, which the family 

 assured me he had uniformly refused to others. On a 

 certain visit to him he displayed his temper and made an 

 attack upon me, because I refused to let go a saucer from 

 which he was drinking milk. I jerked him up by the 

 chain and slapped him ; whereupon he instantly laid the 

 side of his head on the floor, put out his tongue, and made 

 just such a sound as Jokes had made on the occasion men- 

 tioned. It occurred to me that it was a sign of surrender. 

 Subsequent tests confirmed this opinion. 



Mrs. M. French Sheldon, in her journey through East 

 Africa, shot a small monkey in a forest near Lake Charla. 

 She graphically describes how the little fellow stood high 

 up in the bough of a tree and chattered to her in a clear, 

 musical voice until at the discharge of her gun he fell 

 mortally wounded. When he was laid dying at her feet, 

 he turned his bright little eyes pleadingly upon her as if 



