THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. I I 5 



tiful monkey she saw there, and I do not think 

 the propensity could be accounted for merely by 

 her sex. I do not think she ever quite under- 

 stood where that monkey was concealed, and the 

 scores of times in a day that she would turn the 

 glass around was evidence that she never fully 

 despaired of finding it. I accidentally dropped 

 a small mirror one day near the cage in which 

 there was a green monkey. The glass was 

 broken into many small pieces. Quick as 

 thought the monkey thrust her arm through 

 the bars, grabbed the largest piece, and got 

 it into her cage before I was fully aware of 

 what she was trying to do. The fragment was 

 about an inch wide by an inch and a half long. 

 She caught a glimpse of herself in the glass, 

 and her conduct was more like that of a crazy 

 monkey than anything I can compare it to. She 

 peeped into the fragment of the mirror, which 

 she seemed to regard as a hole in something 

 wmich separated her from another monkey. 

 She held it up over her head at arm's-length, 

 laid it down on the floor, held it against the wall, 

 and twisted herself into every pose to get a bet- 

 ter peep at that mysterious monkey on the other 

 side of something", she could not tell what. 



