OEDEE OF QUADEUMANA. 
GOo 
so, and moved just at the moment when it was carrying off the 
object of its covetousness, when it let it drop, and ran off in the 
greatest confusion. 
“ On the approach of the dry season, the temperature being 
chilly, Tommy began to be desirous of company during his 
slumbers in order to keep himself warm. The negroes did not 
like him for a bed-fellow, although he resembled them so much ; 
neither did I care to give him a place near me ; so that* poor 
Tommy, repelled everywhere, found himself badly situated. But 
I soon discovered that he watched until everybody was asleep to 
creep furtively beside some negro friend ; and there would sleep 
without stirring until daybreak, when he usually decamped before 
found out. Several times he was caught in the act and beaten, 
but he persevered.” 
This little Chimpanzee was endowed with great intelligence. 
Its master entertained the most sanguine hopes of being able to 
send it to America, when it died without any apparent cause ; but 
probably its death was produced by languor and melancholy, which 
kills all the young Chimpanzees taken away from their native 
forests and maternal care. 
Buffon has given some very interesting details regarding a 
young Chimpanzee which was brought to Paris in 1740. He tells 
us that this animal offered its hand to lead people about who 
came to visit it ; that it promenaded with them in the gravest 
manner as if keeping them company ; that it sat at table, spread 
out its napkin, wiped its lips with it, and used its spoon and fork 
to carry food to its mouth ; that it poured out its drink into 
a glass by itself, hob-nobbed when invited to do so ; that it 
would take a cup and saucer, put them on the table, put sugar in 
the cup, and pour tea over it, leave it to cool before drinking it, 
and all this without any other instigation than the signs or words 
of its master, and often even without this. 
Dr. Franklin mentions having seen, some years ago, in the 
Zoological Gardens of Antwerp, a Chimpanzee which sometimes 
dined at the table of the Director, where on fete days it drank to 
the health of the company in a glass of champagne. This Monkey 
showed a great regard for the children of the house, and joined 
in their games. In summer it accompanied them into the garden, 
climbed up into a cherry tree, and gathered fruit for them. 
