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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
‘ 2^th . — We paid a Christmas visit to Jenny 
the ourang-outang. She certainly attempts speech 
as far as her powers admit. When she is fond of 
a person, she puts her long strong arms round his 
neck, and makes a curious noise, like an attempt 
to utter caressing words — opening the lips and 
moving them as though trying to make certain 
sounds. She produces a sort of a murmur, which 
one might easily translate into kind expressions. 
To-day she took a fancy, when out of her 
cage, to look out of the window, and slyly crept 
along till she got there under pretence of friend- 
ship. Hunt pretended to be offended at her not 
coming when he called, and she ran up to him, 
put her arms round his neck, whispering to him 
and kissing him, till he seemed to forgive her.’ 
