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his fingers as if to help me to untie it. I earmot say, however*, 
that he succeeds in helping me at all. 
26th. He seems very fond of spinning things round. If he 
gets a whole apple or orange he generally sits spinning it on one 
end, before beginning to eat it. He eats an orange by biting of! 
a tiny piece of the peel, and putting his long, thin finger deep 
into the fruit ; he then lays the whole orange under a piece of 
wire netting he has near him, and, putting his mouth to the hole 
he has made, presses the wire netting down upon the fruit, thus 
squeezing the juice up into his mouth. When a good deal of 
juice begins to run out, he holds the orange up over his head and 
lets the juice run into his mouth. 
27th. To-day he obtained possession of a rather valuable 
document, and, as usual, nothing I could do would persuade him 
to give it up. He neglected any kind of food I offered him, 
and only chattered when I coaxed him. When at last I tried 
threatening him with a cane, he only became savage and flew at 
me, chattering. My mother now came and sat down in a chair 
beside him. He immediately jumped into her lap, and remained 
quite still while she took the paper out of his hands. When, 
however, she handed it to me and I laughed at her success, he 
showed his teeth and screamed and chattered at me angrily. I 
find laughing generally irritates him. Thus, when he is playing 
with my mother in the bed in the best of humour, as long a,s I 
sit quietly on the bed all is well, but if I laugh, for example at 
any of his affectionate glances, he makes a dart at me to send me 
off, and then returns with renewed demonstrations of affection 
to my mother, tumbling head over heels and lying on his back, 
grinning in a most comical manner, and making a sound very 
like slight laughter. 
28th. His chain is fastened to the marble slab of a wash hand- 
stand, placed on the floor against the wall. It is too heavy for 
him to pull along by his chain without hurting himself, so when 
he desires to do any mischief which is beyond the reach of his 
chain, he deliberately goes to the marble and pushes an arm 
down between an upright part of it and the wall, until he has 
moved the whole slab sufficiently far from the wall to admit of 
his slipping down behind the upright part himself. He then 
places his back against the wall and his four hands against the 
upright part of the marble, and pushes the slab as far as he can 
stretch his long legs. He only does this, however, when be is 
bent on mischief, as the fact of food being beyond the reach of 
his chain does not furnish a strong enough inducement to 
lead him to take so much exertion. Thus to-day he began to 
