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Animal Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
November
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Paul Huil is a most original storyteller, says the Chicago Banner of Gold. The best of it ishe tellsof things discovered by himself. "Speaking of the intelligence of animáis," he said to a group at the club the other night, "let me teil you what I saw in a museum once. An old lady was visiting at our house last summer and one afternoon I took her and my little nephew to see the curiosities. We were looking at the monkeys. Several young monkeys were playing about the floor of the cage while their mother, half asleep, swung slowly on the trapeze above them. My nephew's head carne just a little above the floor of the cage and his shlning curls offered a tempting mark for the fingers of one of the juvenile unevolved men. Reaching out he clutched a handf ui of it and tug-ged smartly. The boy set up a seream that started the perspiration on the living skeleton and sent the fat woman into hysterics. The monkey mother opened her eyes, swung sedately down from her perch, and gave her progeny a resounding cuff that sent him sprawling. Then with a look that said plainly 'Do that again if you dare,' she climbed once more aloft and resumed her swinging. Intelligence in animáis? Well I should say so."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier