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right. If they are still hotly pursued,, they then 
are content to throw down their whole burden, 
and to take refuge among their woods, on the 
top of which they remain in perfect security. 
The monkey generally brings forth one at a 
time, and sometimes two. They are rarely found 
to breed when brought over into Europe ; but 
those that do, exhibit a very striking picture of 
parental affection. The male and female are never 
tired of fondling their young one. They instruct 
it with no little assiduity ; and often severely 
correct it, if stubborn, or disinclined to profit by 
their example : they hand it from one to the other ; 
and when the male has done showing his regard, 
the female takes her turn. When wild in the 
woods, the female, if she happens to have two, 
carries one on her back, and the other in her 
arms : that on her back clings very closely, clasp* 
ing its hands round her neck, and its feet about 
her middle ; when she wants to suckle it, she 
then alters her position ; and that which has been 
fed gives place to the other, which she takes in 
her arms. It often happens that she is unable to 
leap from one tree to another, when thus loaden, 
and upon such occasions their dexterity is very 
surprising. The whole family form a kind of 
chain, locking tail in tail, or hand in hand, and 
one of them holding the branch above, the rest 
swing down, balancing to and fro, like a pendulum, 
until the undermost is enabled to catch hold of 
the lower branches of some neighbouring tree. 
When the hold is fixed below, the monkey lets 
go that which was above, and thus comes under* 
most in turn ; but, creeping up along the chain, 
attains the next branches, like the rest ; and thus 
they all take possession of the tree, without ever 
coming to the ground. 
