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it exactly as if it had been her own, and a very pretty sight it was. 
He soon grew large enough to travel on his own sturdy legs, at any 
sudden alarm running quickly back to his nurse and clinging to her 
with his sinewy fingers. 
When he strayed away out of her sight in the woods, it was 
really pathetic to hear her Heatings and his answering cries. He 
had gradually come to know me, and he treated us all with the great¬ 
est gentleness. When he was three months old I began to give him 
bananas, of which he was very fond, and he afterward became 
accustomed to other fruits; but nothing ever pleased him like the 
goat’s milk. 
He learned very quickly, and at five months knew all objects in 
my tent by name, bringing to me anything I called for, which was 
certainly more than many children of two or even three years could 
have done. But with the latter, development progresses with giant 
strides after that age, while with an orang it ceases. What an 
animal is at one year of age he always remains. 
H. B. G.—18 
