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squeal which plainly expressed the opinion that 

 it was not his business to interfere. When 

 either of his special friends used the same words, 

 he instantly turned to her, galloped across the 

 room, and bounded on to her shoulder. 



Koko was not dependent on outside objects 

 for his amusement ; he bubbled over with fun, 

 and his whimsical little pranks can never be 

 half told. He turned somersets on the carpet, 

 sometimes very fast, again very slowly, even 

 pausing while standing on his head ; he sprang 

 over the top of a book or newspaper one was 

 reading ; he snatched away eye-glasses ; he made 

 droll little leaps about a foot high, with a 

 coquettish toss of the head and fling of the arms, 

 and often spent a long time in thus jumping 

 about on the floor. Above all things he liked 

 to leap. It was not uncommon for him to spring 

 square into one's face, sometimes grasping a nose 

 in one hand, and an ear in the other, but occa- 

 sionally embracing the face with all fours, hands 

 on both sides of the forehead, and feet each side 

 of the cheek. He stopped but a second; his 

 friend was merely a station on his way to the 

 mantel ; but it was a great surprise, and though 

 it lasted but a moment, one felt as if a tornado 

 had passed over. 



