MONKEYS WHO WORK. 



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Like the rest of the monkey family, the chacma 

 gets very ugly as he grows older. An English 

 gentleman who spent some time among the Kaf- 

 firs tells of an old chacma which liked to play 

 jokes, rushing at the women as they went by, 

 seizing them by the ankles, and acting as fiercely 

 as if he were about to eat them up. 



The thing he liked best, however, was a little 

 animal — a young dog, for instance — to pet 

 and " play baby " with. He would hug it and 

 dandle it, as a girl does a doll, till the puppy 

 made too much resistance, and then he would 

 seize one leg or the tail, swing his pet around 

 once or twice, and fling it far away. 



The latest report of a monkey that works 

 comes from Florida. It is a chimpanzee, trained 

 to wait at table ; and its owner says it does the 

 work of four negro waiters. It wears a livery, 

 and carries a napkin in a proper way. Its only 

 weakness is so irresistible a fondness for sweets 

 that it is obliged to take toll as it serves them. 



