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"There was a boy here once who wanted to eat a nut, and he was going to crack it in the ordinary way, when his mother said to him, 'Don't do that, my dear, you'll spoil your teeth! Just fancy!" "Ah, but have you ever seen one of the very small men-things?" said the Chimpanzee. "The things they call 'long-clothes babies'! They are the most absurd creatures you ever saw in your life.
He stopped a moment, musing; then in softer tones went on: "The days are all still there. The creature-multitude sleeps in hidden lairs black and gold and brown and grey all veiled in golden gloom. The little men-things go their ways, on their own man-paths, which they only know; remember this they only know.
"What a noise those Monkeys do make, to be sure!" said the Chimpanzee to the Orang-Utangs. "I really think something should be done to stop them." "Here comes some of these little men-things!" said one of the Orang-Utangs. "What queer things they are! Are they really relations of ours, do you suppose?"
Sometimes I think how many poor girls there must be who have never had a chance, while I have had so many and such glorious ones; who can not get anybody to listen to them, while I am so pampered and praised; who live in narrow alleys and serve in little dark shops, where men and men-things talk to them as they can't talk to their sisters and wives, while I am held aloft in an atmosphere of admiration and respect: who earn their bread in clubs and casinos, where they breathe the air of the hotbeds of hell, while I am surrounded by everything that ennobles and refines!
"But why do these men-things wear such a lot of things over their skins?" said the eldest. "Oh, they don't know any better," said the Chimpanzee. "You know they are not nearly so strong as we are." "Ah, but they're very artful, some of them," said the eldest Orang-Utang. "I should think if they were caught young, you might be able to teach them to do quite a lot of tricks."
"The Grass Jungle, sons? It is the place of secret ways. Only the very innocent of men-things dwell there; those not soiled by the wisdom of evil. To the wise of the world, it is the place of plague and pestilence and fear; and swift death by heat and the shedding of blood. Past all else to such it is the place of the shedding of blood."
"At night I speak who know at night the earth rises up to the heavens on the voices of the wild and the ears of the gods are offended. Creatures go out on their own paths as the men-things go on theirs by day. They rend and contend, they kill and are killed; but they do not cease till dawn." The devout man's head sank low upon his breast and he was very still.
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