THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 5 I 



me. When returning to me again he would 

 resume his sad story, whatever it was. I secured 

 a good record of that part of his speech which 

 was made when near me at the front of the cage, 

 but the remarks made while at the window were 

 not so well recorded, yet they were audible, and 

 I reproduced them on the phonograph at a sub- 

 sequent visit. My opinion was that the sound 

 he uttered while at the window must allude in 

 some way to the state of the weather, and this 

 opinion was confirmed by the fact that on a 

 later occasion, when I repeated the record to him 

 the weather was fair; but when the machine 

 repeated those sounds which he had uttered at 

 the window on the day of the storm, it would 

 cause him to turn away and look out the window ; 

 while at the other part of the record he evinced 

 but little interest, and in fact seemed rather to 

 avoid the phonograph, as though the sounds sug- 

 gested something which he disliked. I am quite 

 sure that the address which he made to me at 

 the front of the cage was a complaint of some 

 kind, and from its intonation and the manner in 

 which it w r as delivered I believed that it was an 

 expression of pain. It occurred to me that the 

 state of the weather might have something to do 



