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genus. If it be true, us 1 have lu'artl as.-<.'rti'<l, 

 tliat intelligence is -wrfHen in legible characters 

 m Ifeeiis Boutin the mtrnkiey feibf^ I beg to 

 add, tliat miscMef md cunning also beam in 



tlieiv eye. 



One instance of a very close approximation 

 to> if it may not be considered absolutely an 

 esiereise 0% T^asOnin^ feetilty, oeeumd 



in this animgjL Ottoe Of tw'icc f lectured 

 him on takino^ away my snap continually from 

 the wasliing-placi", which he wunhl ninuve. f(U' 

 his amnscnioutj from that place, and leave it 

 arboutf ^^ia. Ofl«f mourning I was iR^nting, 

 lSk0 ape being ptrtsemt ta lihe cabin, when eas^kg 

 my eyes tOW^^s him, I saw the little fellow 

 taking the soap. I watclu'd him, without liis 

 perceiving that i did so ; and lie occasionally 



^mH a Iu?iiv0 gl«»ce towat?tl0 tbe plaee 

 wbere I aai* I ia?6t^ded to write ; lie seeing 



D^jd^busily occnjued, took tlie soap, and moved 

 away with it in his jiaw. AVlicn lie liad walked 

 half the lengtii of the cabin, I spoke quietly, 

 wittiotst Irigbtening him. f ifillant: he found 

 I saw him, he walked back again, and deposited 

 I he St Kip nearly in the same $)3ai!e fecm whaice 



he liad takeu it. Tliere was certainly some- 

 thiug more ihan iustiuct in tljat aeliun : In* 

 evidently betrayed ii consciousness of having 



