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A NEW HISTORY OF 



their monitory censure. Still, methinks, it will 

 not be altogether lost upon the general reader. 

 It will tend to show the true habits of two animals, 

 hitherto but imperfectly known. 



DIALOGUE. 



"I thought that you inhabitants of the trees, 

 Mr. howler," said the ant-bear, " never troubled 

 the ground ? " "I thought so too," replied the 

 preacher monkey, " until very lately. But, I fancy 

 that I must have got drunk one night at a party of 

 our preachers. All I remember was, that I came 

 whack to the ground ; and that soon after daylight 

 I found myself on a man's shoulders, and he was 

 carrying me off. When I had recovered my senses 

 sufficiently to know what was going on, I made my 

 teeth meet in his ugly cheek. So he threw me 

 down and left me to myself. All this was pure 

 accident: but here alas, I am, with my back 

 broken, and for ever incapacitated from returning 

 to the trees, which are my native haunts." " I see 

 clearly," replied the ant-bear, " that you are out of 

 your element: but pray, Mr. bowler," continued 

 he, u how many of you howler monkeys assemble 

 together, when you have determined to give the 

 woods a benefit of your preaching ? We are 

 gravely told by an author, that you assemble 

 for that purpose." "The idea of our howling 



