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Crowley certainly understood much, if not all, 

 that was said to him. He was grieved by re- 

 proaches and pleased by kind words, and he 

 managed to express his emotions clearly to his 

 friends, though he was evidently not so fluent as 

 some of his kind have been in captivity. This 

 may be because he had no companions, nor even 

 neighbors, who might be supposed to understand 

 him, and so make it worth his while to talk. 

 Perhaps if he had become reconciled to Kitty, 

 and on friendly and social terms with her, we 

 might have learned the chimpanzee language. 

 Meanwhile he was a deeply interesting subject 

 of study, as well as the funniest fellow in New 

 York. 



