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RECREATION 



sketch pad and walked demurely 

 around, catching attitudes as I could, 

 and the accompanying illustrations are 

 the results of my work. 



In the northeast corner of the page 

 you will see where Mr. Crowley made 

 himself into a hammock. 



In the southwest corner you can see 

 him as he was addressing me in ape 

 language upon some subject, the mean- 

 ing of which it took me a long time to 

 discover ; but I at length found out, by 

 unmistakable signs, he wanted to bor- 

 row my watch. I knew the delicacy 

 and skill with which he could handle 

 the watch ; but I also knew the unrelia- 

 bility of his temper ; so I declined to 

 loan it to him for fear he might get 

 mad and smash it on the bars of his 

 prison. At this he flew into a violent 

 rage, slammed the trapeze against the 

 ceiling, dashed himself violently upon 

 the bars of his cage, made horrible 

 faces, threw sawdust at me, and, at 

 length, retired to a corner, where he 

 lay down in the impossible position 

 shown in the southeast corner of the 

 drawing ; there he sucked his fingers for 

 quite a while, and resisted all my efforts 

 to coax him out in the open. 



Just above the last figure described, 

 in direct, vertical line with the one on 

 the hammock, is a sketch showing Mr. 

 Crowley in the pose he assumed in 

 jumping — which he did when angry. 

 In this way, h.e would jump up and 

 down, up and down, until he would 

 shake the whole building; but, after his 

 rage was over, he was as gentle as a 



kitten and as winning as a girl of six- 

 teen. 



Another peculiarly interesting thing 

 I noticed about this ape was the manner 

 in which he used his index finger for 

 a thumb. You will see by the sketch, 

 that the thumbs of his hands are very 

 small, so, in grasping the bar, he used 

 the forefinger for a thumb. 



A little way back, I spoke of his 

 walking on his feet and knuckles, and 

 the sketch under the hammock figure 

 shows him in this pose. 



I receive many letters and personal 

 visits from young people who want to 

 study animal drawing, and for several 

 years I taught a class in animal draw- 

 ing at the School of Applied Design, 

 on Twenty-third Street, New York; 

 but, for the benefit of the art students 

 who are thinking of following this as a 

 serious pursuit I would suggest that 

 they do not try to begin their studies 

 upon a husky, live, chimpanzee, for, 

 fragmentary as my sketches may ap- 

 pear, I will assure the beginner that his 

 first results will look more like the 

 shorthand notes of my stenographer 

 than any animal known to natural- 

 ists. 



If you want to have a good time, and 

 laugh until your sides are sore, gtt the 

 keeper to lock the door and leave you 

 alone in the room where one of these 

 great apes is confined in his cage; but, 

 for the first adventure of this kind you 

 will probably get as good results if you 

 leave your sketch book on the outside of 

 the locked door. 



