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bite or to resist him. He was also very much attached to the 
housekeeper. He appeared to have more fondness for her than 
for the keeper, and this increased when he became ill ; he would 
then cry piteously to be taken into her lap ; but he took liber- 
ties with her which he never attempted with the keeper, — he 
would assume all the airs of a sick and petted child, and once 
bit her very severely in the hand. 
He used to have his face and hands washed, and his hair 
combed, every morning ; and, at the command of his keeper he 
would very orderly strip himself for this purpose. He would 
grasp the cuffs of his Guernsey frock, and draw his arms out, one 
after the other, as quickly as any human being could effect such 
an operation : or, if the sleeves of some of his vests were a little 
too tight, he would turn the body over his head, and so draw out 
his arms. He never, however, could accomplish the dressing 
of himself again, although he often attempted it. 
He used to enjoy being tickled by his attendants. He would lie 
on his back, and hollow', and chuckle, and laugh, while they pulled 
him about — yes ! it very nearly approximated to, or was almost 
the identical laugh of the human being. 
He had all the boy’s and the monkey’s delight of mischief. 
He would tease the puppies of a Barbary bitch that was in the 
same room — he would plague the mother — give no rest to another 
dog that was there — but then, in his turn, he would submit, with- 
out any attempt at retaliation, and would suffer himself to be 
teazed, and not a little roughly handled by them. 
When he had not them to play with, or when he was ordered, 
he would climb a rudely-constructed tree in his cage, and would 
leap from bough to bough, or would get into his swing, and 
shew himself an adept in the art of balancing himself, superior 
to the wandering professors of it ; or he would play with a large 
ball that usually lay in a corner of his cage. His countenance 
would then brighten up to a degree that could hardly have been 
expected from its usual staid and grave expression. “ In his 
most sportive play, how r ever,” says the author of an interesting 
account of him in the Penny Magazine, “ there was nothing of 
the restless quickness so observable in the actions of the monkey — 
nothing of that chattering and grinning on every surprise ; 
but a superiority of character, and an approximation of its 
manners, however distant, to those of the young of our own race.” 
It must, however, be added, that the approximation was very 
distant — if the phrase may be permitted ; and that on no occa- 
sion could I discover — and I looked anxiously for it — any indi- 
cations of intelligence superior, or even equal, to some of the 
domesticated animals. There was a quiet gravity of countenance 
