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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
69
CHAPTER
IX.
Affections--A
little
Flirtation--Some
of
my
personal
Friends.
Nellie
had
spent
much
of
her
life
in
captivity
and
had
been
used
to
the
society
of
children,
for
whom
she
showed
the
greatest
fondness,
and
rarely
ever
betrayed
the
slightest
aversion
to
any
of
them.
She
delighted
to
pat
their
cheeks,
pull
their
ears,
and
tangle
their
hair.
One
of
her
favourite
pastimes
was
to
pull
the
hairpins
out
of
my
wife's
hair
so
that
she
could
get
hold
of
it
the
better
to
play
with,
and
my
wife
has
often
remarked
that
Nellie
would
make
an
excellent
lady's-maid.
She
would
clean
one's
finger-nails
with
the
skill
of
a
manicure.
She
would
pick
every
shred,
ravelling,
or
speck
from
one's
clothing.
Her
aversions
and
attachments
were
equally
strong.
She
was
not
selfish
in
selecting
her
friends,
nor
did
she
seem
to
be
influenced
by
age
or
beauty.
[Sidenote:
MONKEYS
SHOULD
HAVE
TOYS]
To
let
her
out
of
her
cage
and
give
her
something
to
play
with
was
happiness
enough
for
her,
and
I
almost
think
she
preferred
such
a
life
to
the
freedom
of
her
Amazon
forests.
But
you
cannot
afford
to
turn
one
out
of
the
cage
in
a
room
where
there
is
anything
that
can
be
torn
or
broken,
as
they
enjoy
such
mischief
in
the
highest
degree.
Nellie
would
beg
me
so
piteously
to
be
taken
from
her
little
iron
prison
that
I
could
not
have
the
cruelty
to
refuse
her,
even
at
the
cost
of
some
trouble
in
preparing
the
room
for
her;
and
as
we
retain
these
little
captives
against
their
will,
and
treat
them
worse
than
slaves
by
keeping
them
in
close
confinement,
I
think
we
should
at
least
try
to
amuse
them.
It
is
true
they
do
not
have
to
toil,
but
I
think
it
would
be
more
humane
to
make
them
work
in
the
open
air
than
to
confine
them
so
closely,
and
then
deprive
them
of
every
source
of
pleasure.
As
an
act
of
humanity
and
simple
justice,
I
would
impress
upon
those
who
keep
such
little
pets
how
important
a
thing
it
is
to
keep
them
supplied
with
toys.
They
are
just
like
children
in
this
respect,
and
for
a
trifle
one
can
furnish
them
with
all
the
toys
they
need.
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