120 APES AND MONKEYS 



a bamboo roof, and was suspended a few feet from the 

 ground, so as to keep out the ants. 



Moses soon learned to adjust the curtain and go to bed 

 without my aid. He would lie in bed in the morning until 

 he heard me or the boy stirring about the cage, when he 

 would poke his little black head out and begin to jabber 

 for his breakfast. Then he would climb out and come to 

 the cage to see Avhat was going on. He was not confined 

 at all, but quite at liberty to go about in the forest, climb 

 the trees and bushes, and have a good time of it. He was 

 jealous of the boy, and the boy was jealous of him, espe- 

 cially when it came to a question of eating. Neither of 

 them seemed to want the other to eat anything that they 

 mutually liked, and I had to act as umpire in many of their 

 disputes on that grave subject, which seemed to be the 

 central thought of both of them. I frequently allowed 

 Moses to dine with me, and I never knew him to refuse, or 

 to be late in coming, on such occasions; but his table eti- 

 quette was not of the best order. I gave him a tin plate 

 and a wooden spoon. He did not like to use the latter, 

 but seemed to think that it was pure affectation for any 

 one to eat with such an awkward thing. He always held 

 it in one hand while he ate with the other or drank his 

 soup out of the plate. It was such a task to get washing 

 done in that part of the world, that I resorted to all means 

 of economy in that matter, and for a tablecloth I used a 

 leaf of newspaper, when I had one. To tear that paper 

 afforded Moses an amount of pleasure that nothing else 

 would, and in this act his conduct was more like that of a 

 naughty child than in anything else he did. When he 



