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The Speech of Monkeys
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R. L. Garner
95
I
accidentally
dropped
a
small
mirror
one
day
by
the
cage
in
which
there
was
a
green
monkey.
The
glass
was
broken
into
many
small
pieces.
Quick
as
thought,
the
green
monkey
thrust
her
arm
through
the
bars,
grabbed
the
largest
piece,
and
got
it
into
her
cage
before
I
was
fully
aware
of
what
she
was
trying
to
do.
The
fragment
was
about
an
inch
wide
by
an
inch
and
a
half
long.
She
caught
a
glimpse
of
herself
in
the
glass,
and
her
conduct
was
more
like
that
of
a
crazy
monkey
than
anything
I
can
compare
it
to.
She
peeped
into
the
fragment
of
the
mirror,
which
she
seemed
to
regard
as
a
hole
in
something
which
separated
her
from
another
monkey.
She
held
it
up
over
her
head
at
arm's-length,
laid
it
down
on
the
floor,
held
it
against
the
wall,
and
twisted
herself
into
every
pose
to
get
a
better
peep
at
that
mysterious
monkey
on
the
other
side
of
something,
she
could
not
tell
what.
When
the
glass
was
reversed,
she
seemed
much
perplexed,
and
would
sometimes
jump
high
off
the
floor,
and
turn
herself
entirely
around,
as
if
to
untangle
the
mystery.
Then
again
she
would
discover
the
right
side
of
the
glass,
and
would
go
through
these
antics
again.
Several
times
while
holding
it
against
the
wall
she
would
put
her
eyes
close
up
against
the
glass,
just
as
she
would
to
a
knot-hole
in
the
wall.
I
tried
in
vain
for
some
time
to
get
the
glass
away
from
her
lest
she
might
injure
herself
with
it,
but
only
succeeded
after
considerable
labour
and
through
the
help
of
her
keeper.
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