Il6 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



When the glass was reversed she seemed much 

 perplexed, and would sometimes jump high off 

 the floor, and turn herself entirely around as if 

 to untangle the mystery. Then again she would 

 discover the right side of the glass and would go 

 through these antics again. Several times, while 

 holding it against the wall, she would put her 

 eyes close up against the glass, just as she would 

 to a knot-hole in the wall. I tried in vain for 

 some time to get the glass away from her lest she 

 might injure herself with it, but only succeeded 

 after considerable labor and through the help of 

 her keeper. 



McGinty always tries to find the image behind 

 the glass. He reaches his little black hand as 

 far as he can around behind it, peeps over and 

 under it, pecks on the glass with his fingers, 

 kisses and caresses it, and grins at it with infinite 

 delight. He often tries to turn the glass around 

 to look on the back of it, and when he finds no 

 monkey there he works his eyebrows as if per- 

 plexed, and utters a sound which reminds me 

 of a child under similar circumstances saying 

 "Gone," when in play something is concealed 

 from it to make the child believe it is lost. 

 Then he will suddenly turn the glass around 



