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LIIILE FOLKS 
It makes a very pretty pet, living contentedly in a cage, and 
having plenty of soft silk fur. This family is among the most 
intelligent of its kind. It is said even to recognize pictures. A 
gentleman who experimented with some of them found they would 
shrink away from pictures of cats, or of wasps, as they would from 
live cats and wasps, but when shown the picture of a grasshopper, 
or other harmless insect, they would snatch at it. 
This little fellow in the picture — the common Marmoset — is 
ornamented with a tuft of white hair on each side of his head. 
Others of the family have black tufts, and still others have a sort 
of plume over the forehead. 
In the London Zoological Gardens, are kept nearly two hun- 
dred monkeys, and it is a very interesting sight to see them dine. 
Their dinner is cooked and served at four o'clock. They have a 
variety of things to eat — boiled potatoes and carrots, baked apples, 
nuts, and grapes, pies and puddings, oranges and fruit. This food 
is cut up, dishes are used and one old baboon helps himself with a 
spoon, though it must be admitted that most of them show a firm 
belief in the old saying, " fingers were made before forks." 
