and sniffs the air, especially noting 
the wind and its direction. It will then, 
perhaps, change its course, and after 
running for some distance take another 
observation. Presently it will spy out 
a blade of grass, pluck it up, turn it on 
all sides, smell it, and then go forward 
again. Thus the animal proceeds until 
it leads the party to water. In this re- 
spect at least, baboons have their uses, 
and on occasions have been the bene- 
factors of man. 
The baboons have, in common with 
the natives, a great fondness for a kind 
of liquor manufactured from the grain of 
the durra or dohen. They often become 
intoxicated and thus become easy of 
capture. They have been known to 
drink wine, but could not be induced to 
taste whisky. When they become 
completely drunk they make the most 
fearful faces, are boisterous and brutal, 
and present altogether a degrading 
caricature of some men. 
As illustrating the characteristics of 
fear and curiosity in the baboon, we 
will quote the following from the per- 
sonal experience of Dr. Brehm, the 
celebrated traveler. He had a great 
many pets, among others a tame lioness, 
who made the guenons rather nervous, 
but did not strike terror to the hearts 
of the courageous baboons. They used 
to flee at her approach, but when she 
really seemed to be about to attack one 
of them, they stood their ground fairly 
well. He often observed them as they 
acted in this way. His baboons turned 
to flee before the dogs, which he would 
set upon them, but if a dog chanced to 
grab a baboon, the latter would turn 
round and courageously rout the 
former. The monkey would bite, 
scratch, and slap the dog's face so en- 
ergetically that the whipped brute 
would take to bis heels with a howl. 
More ludicrous still seemed the terror 
of the baboons of everything creeping, 
and of frogs. The sight of an innocent 
lizard or a harmless little frog would 
bring them to despair, and they would 
climb as high as their ropes would per- 
mit, clinging to walls and posts in a 
regular fit of fright. At the same time 
their curiosity was such that they had 
to take a closer look at the objects of 
their alarm. Several times he brought 
them poisonous snakes in tin boxes. 
They knew perfectly well how danger- 
ous the inmates of these boxes were, 
but could not resist the temptation of 
opening them, and then seemed fairly 
to revel in their own trepidation. 
THE SUMMER POOL. 
Buchanan. 
There is a singing in the summer air, 
The blue and brown moths flutter o'er the grass, 
The stubble bird is creaking in the wheat, 
And, perched upon the honeysuckle hedge, 
Pipes the green linnet. Oh! the golden world — 
The star of life on every blade of grass, 
The motion and joy on every bough, 
The glad feast everywhere, for things that love 
The sunshine, and for things that love the shade. 
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