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Title: Four-handed folk
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918
Subjects: Animal behavior Monkeys
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as to sit on the centre-table, close to a bigRochester-burner lamp, and luxuriate in its heat.The first time he tried this seat, he put one in-quisitive finger on the shade, but instantly thrustit into his mouth with a glance at me. I laughedat him, and, feeling insulted, he ran out histongue, and saluted me with a mocking Ya!ya! ya ! Often as he sat there afterward henever touched the lam)3 again. When a fire was burning in the open stove,a foot-rest was placed before it for the use ofthe little beast, who spent many hours there.Sometimes he sat with his tail around his necklike a boa, but usually he was bolt upright withhis feet stretched out toward the fire, while hedressed the hair of his tail, which was severalinches longer than his body and an object ofgreat care. His way of doing this was to haulit up before his face, and hold it with bothhands, while he washed and combed it the wrongway; that is, so that the hair stood up instead oflying down. His hair was woolly and not soft,
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THE HALF-MONKEY. 57 and this treatment of course made it stand outall over, forming a very pretty coat, and a thickcushion around him. By this process his tail,after he was kept nicely, was made to look verylarge; as I said before, near the root it becamefully three inches in diameter. A seat Koko liked very much, was the top ofa high rocking-chair, a bamboo rod an inch anda quarter in diameter. In spite of the mostviolent rocking, he had no trouble to keep hisplace, holding on with all four hands side byside, or by two hands on the post at one end.In this place he dressed his fur or washed hisface, with perfect ease and calmness. In fact,so sure was his hold that to get him off a per-son was almost impossible; he could not beshaken from an arm, for instance ; he claspedboth arms and legs tightly around it, and no jaror pull would remove him. We did learn a trick after a while that alwayssent him with a leap to the floor, where he stoodand looked at his tormentor with a reproachfulexp

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