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horn in surprise and made a sound or two, 

 glanced around the room, and again uttered a 

 couple of sounds as he retired from the horn ap- 

 parently somewhat afraid. Again the horn de- 

 livered some exclamations in a pure Capuchin 

 dialect, which Puck seemed to regard as sounds 

 of some importance. He cautiously advanced 

 and made a feeble response, but a quick, sharp 

 sound from the horn seemed to startle him ; and 

 failing to find any trace of a monkey except the 

 sound of a voice, he looked at the horn with evi- 

 dent suspicion, and scarcely ventured to answer 

 any sound it made. When I had delivered to 

 him the contents of the record I entered the 

 room again, and this seemed to afford him some 

 relief. 



A little later I adjusted my apparatus for an- 

 other trial, and this time I hung a small mirror 

 just above the mouth of the horn. Then retiring 

 again from the room I left him to examine his 

 new surroundings, and he soon discovered the 

 new monkey in the glass and began to caress it 

 and chatter to it. After a while I started the 

 phonograph again by means of the string, and 

 when the horn began to deliver its simian ora- 

 tion, it appeared to disconcert and perplex Puck. 



