THE MARMOSET. 



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in his native woods. He took a thin slice in his 

 hands, bit off twice as much as he could man- 

 age, and at every movement of the jaws, thrust 

 the mouthful out on his tongue. After two or 

 three chews he gave his head a quick toss, that 

 flung the surplus off on to carpet and wall and 

 furniture, which was soon ornamented with 

 small wads of sticky banana hard to remove. 

 After enduring it some time I began to experi- 

 ment, and found that the naughty rogue would 

 eat many things, and then banana was no longer 

 on his bill of fare. 



The Midas pi?iche was perhaps eight inches 

 long in body, with a tail of sixteen or eighteen 

 inches ; he would not let us come near enough to 

 measure it. As already mentioned, his face was 

 coal-black, while the long silky hair that hung 

 down on his shoulders was a beautiful silver- 

 white. He had also a curious line of long white 

 hairs on his bare face, starting from near the 

 corner of the eyes and falling off each side like 

 a fashionable mustache, and his nearly white 

 eyebrows met in the middle and were quite 

 heavy. 



All of this gave him a truly venerable look, 

 aside from the fact that his face itself looked as 

 if he might be a hundred years old. His ears 

 were bare of hair, very human looking, and 

 ended in a little point at the top. 



