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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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He
repeatedly
put
his
mouth
to
the
glass,
and
caressed
the
image
which
he
saw
there,
and
at
the
same
time
showed
a
grave
suspicion
and
some
concern
about
the
one
which
he
heard
in
the
horn,
and
tried
to
keep
away
from
it
as
much
as
possible.
His
conduct
in
this
case
was
a
source
of
surprise
to
me,
as
the
sounds
contained
in
the
record
which
I
had
repeated
to
him
were
all
uttered
in
a
mood
of
anxious,
earnest
entreaty,
which
to
me
seemed
to
contain
no
sound
of
anger,
warning,
or
alarm,
but
which,
on
the
contrary,
I
had
interpreted
as
a
kind
of
love
speech,
full
of
music
and
tenderness.
I
had
not
learned
the
exact
meaning
of
any
one
of
the
sounds
contained
in
this
cylinder,
but
had
ascribed
in
a
collective
and
general
way
such
a
meaning
to
this
speech.
But
from
Puck's
conduct
I
was
led
to
believe
that
it
was
a
general
complaint
of
some
kind
against
those
monkeys
in
that
other
cage
who
had
made
life
a
burden
to
little
Pedro.
One
thing
was
clear
to
my
mind,
and
that
is
that
Puck
interpreted
the
actions
of
the
monkey
which
he
saw
in
the
glass
to
mean
one
thing,
and
the
sounds
which
he
heard
from
the
horn
to
mean
quite
another.
[Sidenote:
FORM
OF
SPEECH
USED
BY
MONKEYS]
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