In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
rascal?” After this, its owner was more careful 
in speaking to his pet. 
Monkeys were not only amusing but often use¬ 
ful in keeping the premises clear of those pests of 
the African house—the goats. The monkey 
would leap on the back of the goat and ride it, 
wildly bleating and frantic with terror, until it 
escaped from the yard. If the goat happened to 
run into the house, then “confusion was worse 
confounded.” Little whiskered fellows about 
the size of a squirrel which could be carried about 
on the shoulder and which would take refuge in a 
side pocket when frightened was the favorite of 
some, but the ordinary pet monkey was about 
the size of a rabbit. The chimpanzee is a too 
hideous caricature of a human being to be a 
pleasant pet. Their actions as well as their ap¬ 
pearance are almost human. 1 have seen them 
amuse themselves by playing with native children 
just as an old man would. 
On account of birds of prey, we obtained little 
profit from our poultry yard. Buzzards waddled 
about the kitchen door and acted as useful 
scavengers, but they sometimes devoured young 
ducks and chickens. Hawks swarmed over the 
city all day, darting down and catching up any- 
' thing they could seize, even from the calabashes 
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