134 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



as I shall detail them in the next few paragraphs. 

 It will be remembered that these were new con- 

 ditions under which the monkeys acted. 



I taught Nellie to drink milk from a bottle 

 with a rubber nipple. While I would hold the 

 bottle it was easy for her to secure the milk, 

 but when she undertook it alone she utterly 

 failed. The thing which puzzled her was how 

 to get the milk to come up to her end of the 

 bottle. She turned it in every way and held it 

 in every position that she could think of ; but the 

 milk always kept at the other end of the bottle. 

 She would throw the bottle down in despair, and 

 when she would see the milk flow to the end hav- 

 ing the nipple, she would go back and pick it 

 up and try it again. Poor Nellie would worry 

 her little head over this, and again abandon it in 

 despair. While trying to solve the mystery, she 

 discovered a new trick. While the bottle was 

 partly inverted she caught hold of the nipple and 

 squeezed it. By this means she accidentally 

 spurted the milk into the faces of some ladies 

 who were watching her. This afforded her so 

 much fun that she could scarcely be restrained, 

 and while she remained with me she remembered 

 this funny trick and never failed to perform it 



