THE HALF-MONKEY. 



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he found a willing victim. He began by licking 

 the hands of his new friend, and then planted 

 himself on the shoulder and settled to work. 

 First he washed the face of the gentleman, 

 holding on to the nose or laying his droll lit- 

 tle paw flat on forehead or cheek, or grasping 

 irreverently the full dignified beard. The face 

 finished, greatly to the professor's delight, he 

 began on the head. Now the professor's hair was 

 rather thin, very neatly parted in the middle, 

 and brushed down each side. Koko's method 

 of treatment was peculiar ; it was to scrape 

 against the grain with his singular front teeth 

 as he did in his own toilet. 



At it he went, literally tooth and nail, and in 

 a few minutes the professor's locks stood up as 

 if he had been electrified, not a hair in its place. 

 The victim sat like a martyr, closing his eyes 

 when Koko laid a paw on them to keep his 

 balance, and saying continually, " What a nice 

 little fellow he is ! What a dear little pet ! 

 The nicest I ever saw ! " and so on. 



For half an hour or more this show went on, 

 both having a most luxurious time, while I 

 wished that some of the professor's many ad- 

 mirers who stood in awe of him could see him 

 at the moment. He was not only a man of pro- 

 found learning, but a bachelor of very particular 

 ways. One of the family suddenly brought a 



