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The Speech of Monkeys
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R. L. Garner
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As
I
repeated
the
sound
his
fears
seemed
to
increase,
until
from
a
mere
sense
of
compassion
I
desisted.
No
amount
of
coaxing
would
induce
him
to
return
to
me
or
to
accept
any
offer
of
peace
which
I
could
make.
I
retired
to
a
distance
of
about
twenty
feet
from
his
cage,
and
his
master
induced
him
to
descend
from
the
perch,
which
he
did,
with
the
greatest
reluctance
and
suspicion.
I
gave
the
sound
again
from
where
I
stood,
and
it
produced
almost
the
same
results
as
before.
The
monkey
gave
out
a
singular
sound
in
response
to
my
efforts
to
appease
him,
but
refused
to
become
reconciled.
After
the
lapse
of
eight
or
ten
days,
I
had
not
been
able
to
reinstate
myself
in
his
good
graces,
or
to
induce
him
to
accept
anything
whatever
from
me.
At
this
juncture
I
resorted
to
harsher
means
of
bringing
him
to
terms,
and
began
to
threaten
him
with
a
rod.
At
first
he
resented
this,
but
soon
yielded
and
came
down
merely
from
fear.
He
would
place
the
side
of
his
head
on
the
floor,
put
out
his
tongue,
and
utter
a
very
plaintive
sound
having
a
slight
interrogative
inflection.
At
first
this
act
quite
defied
interpretation;
but
during
the
same
period
I
was
visiting
a
little
monkey
called
Jack.
For
strangers,
we
were
quite
good
friends,
and
Jack
allowed
me
many
liberties
which
the
family
assured
me
he
had
uniformly
refused
to
others.
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