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woman, who uses two sticks, in order to support 

 her tottering frame, Jenny moved slowly, and to 

 all appearance, painfully across the floor, with her 

 hands clenched. On seizing the sprig of celery, 

 she took a sitting position with remarkable compo- 

 sure : and her hands being now, no longer in 

 restraint, nor in an artificial posture on the floor, 

 she made use of them, just as we ourselves would 

 use our hands and arms. 



" Through the kindness of Mrs. Wombwell, and the 

 courtesy of Miss Blight, I was enabled to pay four 

 long visits to this harmless and amusing young crea- 

 ture, lately kidnapped in the sunny regions of Africa. 



" When I looked at it, whilst it stayed on the 

 floor, — I was perfectly satisfied in my own mind, 

 that it had never been formed by nature, to walk 

 on the soles of its feet, or hands, properly so called. 

 In its own native regions, if we may judge, by the 

 peculiar formation of its limbs, the whole of its 

 life must be passed amid the ever verdant trees 

 of the forest. 



" Jenny has no appearance whatever of a tail, 

 for she is a veritable ape. Her skin is as black as 

 a sloe in the hedge, whilst her fur appears curly 

 and brown. Her eyes are beautiful ; but there 

 is no white in them; and her ears are as small 

 in proportion, as those of a negress. 



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