THE HALF-MONKEY. 



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alone all day, and spent the time, it is to be 

 supposed, in sleeping, although I must admit I 

 rarely found him so. At about four in the 

 afternoon I went into the room and let him out. 

 The moment I appeared he came to the front of 

 the cage, pressed his weird little black face with 

 its clear topaz eyes to the wires, and then 

 began to call and " weave " impatiently. The 

 latter was a singular movement. Planting his 

 hind legs far apart, he held up, and outward, 

 his short arms, and swayed his whole body from 

 side to side, at each end of his swing bringing 

 his hands down almost to the floor. This he 

 did very rapidly, uttering every moment a short, 

 quick sort of double grunt, with an occasional 

 explosion or " snort," in the exact tone of a pig. 



Of course I instantly opened his door, from 

 that time till ten o'clock being his regular daily 

 outing. Like a flash he bounced through it, 

 jumped to the nearest chair, from that to the 

 sofa, the table, somebody's lap or shoulder, the 

 mantel, the top of his cage, or the piano, and 

 so made the circuit of the two parlors, without 

 touching the carpet. 



After thus going the grand rounds, he gen- 

 erally jumped to the floor, and ran all about 

 under the furniture. His sharp nose nearly 

 touched the carpet, and his back (owing to the 

 four inches difference in length between his fore 



