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Then a grand commotion ensued among the neigh- 
bours. Letters and messages of horror and entreaty 
poured in to Mr. Jamrach ; he was even threatened 
with legal proceedings. All sorts of methods were 
tried to catch the fugitive ; but an ape’s feet are more 
at home on narrow ledges and steep inclines than feet 
cased in boot-leather. For days the baboon kept his 
liberty, consoling himself for the chilliness of the 
nights by abundant frolics during the day. Little 
wonder if the children were afraid to go to bed at 
the top of the house, or if the servant-girls looked up 
nervously from their toilets at any sound on the tiles 
outside, fearing to see the face of that ‘ odious creature ’ 
glaring in through the glass pane. There could be 
no rest till he was caught and caged. Eventually he 
was enticed into a room through an open window, and 
a blanket having been thrown over him, he was caught 
and carried home in triumph.” 
The panic caused by a big monkey at large is 
almost equal to that which follows the escape of some 
really dangerous beast. Only in the present year a 
large mandrill owned by a lady was pursued and shot 
without mercy in Essex, as a precaution against “ its 
well-known ferocity.” 
“ The most interesting side of our profession,” says 
Mr. Jamrach, “ is the possible arrival of new creatures, 
animals never seen alive in Europe, or new to our 
experience.” The chance of such an event is never 
quite absent. Even in 1894 he received a strange 
deer from Japan. He sent this at once to Professor 
