120 The Kindred of Man. [Feb 
not been ornamented with a black smudge across the nose, ti 
could hardly have been told apart; but twins or not, they loved 3 
other with a most devoted affection, or, at least, so it seeme 
subsequent events cast a doubt on the real depth of 
feelings. i 
Being young they were eminently social, for it may be sai 
with age. When they were first coaxed out of their t 
cage they were visibly embarrassed, and retired into the ni 
- corner, locked tightly in each other’s arms, which, as\ 
wards learned, was a universal refuge in time of doubt, bu 
not long before they began to feel at héme, and thence 
were always ready to make friends with anybody who ma 
approaches in due form. As has been said, they were vé 
of each other, and it was on rare occasions only that they 
not clasped in a fond embrace, and not once during their 
the garden was anything but the most perfect accord 
between them. No pretence of partiality in feeding, no 
of one to the exclusion of the other, could excite . 
jealousy; the slighted one would simply retire to a con 
sulk, but their mutual relations were undisturbed; f 
was all towards the giver, not to the one who received 
was at all times ready to stand by the other; probably th 
has not yet forgotten the ferocious assult Eve once made 
from the rear, while he was engaged in pouring a dose 
cine down the throat of her companion. 
_ Their anger was something ludicrous ; the male espe“ 
liable to paroxysms of rage, during which he would tear 
with both hands, hurl himself down on the floor with 
tempest of yells and roars, but in a moment it was all o 
Was ready to make peace and accept any small atten 
of amende. But his masculinity asserted itself more P 
when danger seemed to threaten—then he was grand; 
inch by inch, brandishing his arms, stopping after each $ 
a stern frown, to emit a terrifying roar, he seemed an 
_ tion of resolution and defiance—a very Ajax—but after 
only a Thersites, a more arrant little coward than he, al 
never lived, and if his appearance did not have the ¢ 
beamne eg le stood his aie the oo approach 
