46 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



cage. I have frequently given Nigger some choice 

 bits of food while I was in the cage, and protected 

 him from the other monkeys while he was eating 

 it. This he seemed to fully appreciate, and al- 

 ways located himself at a certain point in the 

 cage where his defence could be effected with 

 the least difficulty. Nigger frequently indulged 

 in the most pathetic and touching appeals to his 

 keeper, and went through many of the gestures, 

 sounds, and contortions which will be described 

 in the next chapter as a part of the speech and 

 conduct of Dodo, some of whose remarkable 

 poses and expressions have been faithfully por- 

 trayed by Mr. Church. 



Among my personal friends of the simian 

 race there is none more devoted to me than lit- 

 tle McGinty, another winter boarder at Central 

 Park. From the first of my acquaintance with 

 McGinty we have been stanch friends, and when 

 I go to visit him he expresses the most un- 

 bounded delight. He will reach his little arms 

 through the bars of the cage and put his hands 

 on my cheeks, hold his mouth up to the wires, 

 and talk to me at great length. When I go into 

 the cage he will place himself on a perch, 

 where he will sit with his arms around my 



