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MONKEYS. 
dom fail to steal from houses and gardens 
whatever they can carry away. When any ol 
them perceives a child with bread or fruit in 
hand, they will run up, frighten it, and 
snatch what it is eating. If a woman is dry- 
grain in the sun, which is a common 
practice in India, she will sometimes find it 
*iifficult to beat them off. Some of them slip 
^■nund and pretend to steal, and the moment 
runs to strike them, the others, watching 
^1*6 opportunity, fall to and seize the corn 
With the utmost address. 
The spider-monkey, the figure of which 
Occupies the lower right hand corner of the 
ongraving, is thus named from the extraor- 
dinary length of its extremities, and from its 
poculiar motions. It is also called the four- 
dogered monkey, because it has no thumb on 
Its fore paws or hands. It is an inhabitant ot 
tire hotter parts of South America, measuring 
rrhout eighteen inches, and the tail two feet. 
