CHAPTER IV. 



Pedro's Speech Recorded. — Delivered to Puck Through the 

 Phonograph. — Little Darwin Learns a New Word. 



In the Washington collection there is a Ca- 

 puchin by the name of Pedro. When I first vis- 

 ited this bright little monkey he occupied a cage 

 in common with several other monkeys of differ- 

 ent kinds. All of them seemed to impose upon 

 little Pedro, and a mischievous young spider- 

 monkey found special delight in catching him by 

 the tail and dragging him around the floor of the 

 cage. I interfered on behalf of Pedro and drove 

 the spider-monkey away. On account of this 

 Pedro soon began to look upon me as his bene- 

 factor, and when he would see me he would 

 scream and beg for me to come to him. I in- 

 duced the keeper to place him in a small cage by 

 himself, and this he seemed to appreciate very 

 much. When I would go to record his sounds 

 on the phonograph, I would hold him in one 

 hand while he would take the tube in his tiny 

 black hands, hold it close up to his mouth, and 



