42 BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
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times see them. It is hard to 
say whether they shiver from 
cold or fright. People must 
either be ignorant or cruel to 
take pleasure in such sports. 
But to see monkeys skipping 
about in the woods where they 
were born is a very different 
thing. There they seem lull 
of fun and enjoyment, climbing 
the trees as nimbly as squir- 
rels, springing from branch to 
branch, sometimes clasping 
with their hands and some- 
times clinging with their long 
tails. They live together in 
large flocks, and when they 
cannot find enough fruit in the 
