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Finding similar features in human beings, and particularly in children, though not developed in the same degree, we may assume that in our monkey-like ancestors facial characters similar to those of the mandril were developed, though to a less extent, and that they were symptomatic of pleasure, because connected with the period of courtship.

The bicycle, the luti, and the mandril occupy the back part of the large room, where several lamps and farnooses envelop this attractive and drawing combination with a garish and stagy glow, so that they can be seen to advantage by the throngs of eager visitors.

The Mandril appeared to have quite forgotten his dislike of beggars. Tailer took the plate out and returned with it empty. "He's gone, Sir," he said. "I'm glad for your sake, dear Mandril, that you have fallen in with our views," said Slip. "What!" shouted the Mandril. "I quite forgot. A beggar! the wretched impostor." He rushed to the window.

We have to keep the water moving with buckets." Hoddan got up. He looked about him. He hadn't brought hydroponic-garden pipe supplies! And there was no raw material. He took a pair of power snips and cut away a section of cargo space wall-lining. He cut it into strips. He asked the diameter of the pipe. Before their eyes he made pipe spirally wound around a mandril and line-welded to solidity.

About ten o'clock the khan-jees make me up quite a comfortable shake-down, and tired out with the tough journey over the mountains and the worrying persecutions of the afternoon, I fall asleep while yet the house is doing a thriving trade; the luti singing, the mandril grunting, kalians bubbling, and people talking, all fail to keep me awake.

A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum. Now and then, when the crowd with no money to spend becomes too clamorous about the doorway, the luti goes to the assistance of the guards, and giving the mandril the length of his chain, chases the people away.

In the male mandril these characters have been developed because, being an unmistakable sign of sexual ardor, they gave the female particular evidence of sexual feelings. Thus such characters would come to be recognized as habitually symptomatic of pleasurable feelings.

"Give him a piece of money to buy soap with," said Slip. "Come up, Topsy," and he trotted slowly on. I gave the old man something for soap and went my way. That night at dinner the Mandril, who loves argument better than life, said

"RUSKIN," said Slip, "decrees that not only should one give to beggars, but that one should give kindly and deliberately and not as though the coin were red-hot." The Mandril threw himself wildly into the argument. He told us dreadful stories of beggars and their ways of advertisements he had seen in which the advertisers undertook to supply beggars with emaciated children at so much per day.

The luti sings doubtful love songs to the accompaniment of finger-strumming on the drum, and the mandril now and then condescends to stand on its head, grunt loudly in response to questions, spin round and round like a dancing dervish, and otherwise give proof of his intelligence and accomplishments.