586 The Naturalist Brazilian Expedition. [June, 
undue fondness for tragacanth paste, which we sometimes used in 
our work, and if we covered the paste cup he would spend hours 
trying to pry the cover off. Being spoiled, he was rather saucy, 
considering that he had the first right to every dish on our table, 
and helping himself without ceremony, especially to the sugar 
and milk; brandy he would take if it was well sweetened 
Once or twice, while we were living at a hotel, Billy broke loose 
at dinner time and astonished the boarders by racing over the 
table to my wife’s chair, ending by sitting on her shoulder and 
making one of his inimitable faces at the assembled people. One 
day when he occupied his usual place near us a nicely ornamented 
boar’s head was brought in with grinning jaws and staring eye 
made of lemons and olives ; the monkey, who had never seen the 
like, put out both hands as if toward the apparition and retreated 
with a yell to the farthest corner of the room, whence he was taken 
trembling. 
When we first brought him home Billy’s curiosity was much 
excited by the looking-glass in which he saw, as he supposed, 
another monkey ; having tried in vain to reach his playmate kon 
the front, he looked around the glass and was evidently “T 
pointed at finding nothing there ; this performance was parai 
intervals for some days, but after awhile he became aoa ¥ 
to the phenomenon and did not notice it further. He was @ ý 
bright colors, gilt buttons, glass beads and the like; ~ 
tried to pick the flowers from my wife’s muslin dress ; Ci 
hoppers and beetles were a treat to him, though he see? 
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care more about tearing them to bits than eating them ; he ons 
ouch our collectio? 
ag much 
keeping mu 
oming out of the last he lay quiet for a momen a3 r hand te 
hopes of saving him; but, as my w! 
him, he stood up with an effort, made on pge 
her, and fell over dead. I suppose that there was n resented 35 
in the house when we buried him—my wife page 
sacrilege the idea of saving his skin for a s$ aog E pen 
agreed that no more playful and affectionate p€ lacing 
seen. Weeks afterwards I found my wife furtively P 
on his grave. 
1 I have tried to describe the marmoset’s habits accurately 
part of the account is exaggerated. 
and literally, eae 
