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FOUR-HANDED FOLK. 



and dreadfully lonely. He was not happy, nor 

 even contented a moment, away from his mis- 

 tress. So she procured a little basket, one of 

 the kind made to hold a ball of knitting-yarn. 

 This she furnished with warm wraps, and here 

 she established the desolate monkey. Then she 

 hung the w T hole affair — monkey and all — to 

 her belt, and carried it with her wherever she 

 went. 



He was thus made as happy as possible ; but 

 the climate was not favorable to health, and at 

 the end of a year, or possibly a little more, he 

 too drooped, and slept his last sleep in his little 

 basket. 



