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A NEW HISTORY OF 



I left Scarbro' soon after, and on the very day on 

 which I went to Wakefield, the poor little African 

 stranger was lying dead in the apartment which 

 it had occupied. 



Mr. Womb well begged that I would accept it. 

 I did so : — but, as he had already sent word to 

 Huddersfield, that his chimpanzee would be shewn 

 there, so soon as he had made a sufficient sojourn 

 in Wakefield ; I suggested the idea, that, although 

 his poor ape was dead, he would do well to take 

 it with him, in order that the public of Hudders- 

 field, might be gratified in having an opportunity 

 to inspect so singular an animal, so rarely seen 

 in this country. I added, that it might be for- 

 warded to me when he had no more use for it, as 

 the frosty state of the weather was all in its favour. 



The man whom he commissioned to bring it 

 to me, had a cousin in Leeds, a fiddler and a 

 soldier by profession. So in lieu of coming straight 

 to Walton Hall, the fellow took off to Leeds, 

 quite out of the direct line, in order to enjoy the 

 company of his cousin the musician, and to hear 

 him talk of battles lost, and others won. 



They both got drunk the first evening, as the man 

 who had taken charge of the dead ape, afterwards 

 confessed to me, when I questioned him concerning 

 his non appearance at the time appointed. But 



