40 APES AND MONKEYS 



the room was quiet the machine was set in motion, and 

 Puck was treated to a phonographic recital by Pedro. This 

 speech was distinctly delivered through the horn to the 

 monkey. From his actions it was evident that he recog- 

 nized it as the voice of one of his tribe. He looked with 

 surprise at the horn, made a sound or two, glanced around 

 the room, and again uttered two or three sounds. Appar- 

 ently somewhat afraid, he retired from the horn. Again 

 the horn delivered some sounds of pure Capuchin speech. 

 Puck seemed to regard them as sounds of some importance. 

 He advanced cautiously and made a feeble response ; but 

 a quick, sharp sound from the horn startled him ; and fail- 

 ing to find anything indicating a monkey, except the sound 

 of the voice, he looked with evident suspicion at the horn, 

 and scarcely ventured to answer any sound it made. 



When the contents of the record had been delivered to 

 him I entered the room. This relieved his fear of the horn. 

 A little later the apparatus was again adjusted, and a small 

 mirror was hung just above the mouth of the horn. Again 

 retiring from the room, I left him to examine his new sur- 

 roundings. He soon discovered the monkey in the glass, 

 and began to caress it and chatter to it. Again the phono- 

 graph was started by means of the string, and when the 

 horn began to deliver its simian oration, it greatly discon- 

 certed and perplexed Puck. He looked at the image in 

 the glass and then into the horn. He retired with a feeble 

 grunt and an inquisitive grin, showing his little white teeth, 

 and acting as though in doubt whether to regard the affair 

 as a joke, or to treat it as a grim and scientific fact. His 

 voice and actions were like those of a child, declaring in 



