26 APES AND MONKEYS 



to ask for pity. Touched by his appeal, she took the little 

 creature in her arms and tried to soothe him. Again and 

 again he touched his tongue to her hand as if kissing it, and 

 seemed to wish in the hour of death to be caressed by the 

 hand that had taken from him without reward that sweet 

 life which could be of no value except it were spared to 

 the wild forest where his kindred live. From her descrip- 

 tion of the actions of that monkey, his conduct was identi- 

 cal with that of the Cebus, and may justly be interpreted 

 to mean " Pity me ! " or " Spare me ! " A Scotch natural- 

 ist, commenting on my description of this act and its 

 interpretation, quite agrees with me, and states that he 

 has observed the same thing in other species of monkeys. 



During a period of many weeks I visited Jokes almost 

 daily ; but after the lapse of more than two months I had 

 not won him back nor quieted his suspicions against me. 

 On my approach he usually manifested fear and went 

 through the act of humiliation above described. 



Observing that he entertained an intense hatred for a 

 negro boy who teased and vexed him, I had the boy come 

 near the cage. Jokes fairly raved with anger. I took 

 a stick and pretended to beat the boy. This greatly 

 delighted Jokes. I held the boy near enough to the cage 

 to allow the monkey to scratch and pull his clothes. This 

 filled his little simian soul with joy. Releasing the boy, I 

 drove him away by throwing wads of paper at him. This 

 gave Jokes infinite pleasure. I repeated this a number of 

 times, and by such means we again became good friends. 

 After each encounter with the boy, Jokes came to the bars, 

 touched my hand with his tongue, chattered, played with 



