BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY. 29 
THE ORANG-OUTANG. 
This strange animal is called 
sometimes the wild man of the 
woods ; and, no wonder, for it 
has very much the look of a 
man. The country where it 
runs wild is very warm, so, 
when one of these animals was 
brought to England, it was 
clothed in a dress of flannel, 
that it might not suffer from 
the cold. This it liked very 
much, and did not try to tear 
it off as one might suppose it 
would do. It learned to drink 
