The Speech of Monkeys

CHAPTER VI. Dago Talks about the Weather--Tells me of his Troubles--Dodo in the "Balcony Scene"--Her Portrait by a great Artist 59 CHAPTER VII. Interpretation of Words--Specific Words and Signs--The Negative Sign and Sounds--Affirmative Expressions--Possible Origin of Negative and Positive Signs 69 CHAPTER VIII. Meeting with Nellie--Nellie was my Guest--Her Speech and Manners--The little Blind Girl--One of Nellie's Friends--Her Sight and Hearing--Her Toys, and how she Played with Them 83 CHAPTER IX. Nellie's Affections--A little Flirtation--Some of my Personal Friends 97 CHAPTER X. The Capuchin Vocabulary--What I have Found--What I Foresee in it 105 CHAPTER XI. The Word for Food in the Rhesus Dialect--The Rhesus Sound of Alarm--The Dialect of the White-face--Dolly Varden, "Uncle Rhemus," and others 111