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monkeys. 
which seemed to disdain the restraints of ve- 
getable diet altogether. 
This animal was provided with a small 
ehair in winch he would place himself with 
great gravity and self-possession ; but, ac- 
cording to the account of him given by 
Mr. Harrow, in his ‘‘ Characteristic Sketches 
ef Animals,” written to accompany the plates 
from Mr. Landseer’s drawings, the most whim- 
sical of his attainments was certainly that of 
smoking ; for, when his keeper handed him 
® lighted pipe, he would take it from him, 
put it in his mouth, inhale and exhale the 
smoke, and look around him with a degree of 
self-complacency that was most amusing. The 
fret itself is one requiring such a degree of 
uianagement and dexterity as to bespeak the 
possession of instinct of no ordinary cha- 
racter. 
The dog-faced baboon, the upper figure on 
the right, in the engraving, is a native of the 
