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Beyond, not two kos away, were a thousand soldiers, which was a gorgeous lie, who if he but sent a messenger would come and behead the lot, would cast the sacred bones in the gaudy bags upon the dunghill of the village bullocks. "To-morrow, monkey-man, the gift will be doubled," Ajeet answered calmly, "for that is the law, and you know it."
Presently, so had the Mexican engineered it, they were not five steps from the open door and the way was clear. One instant he had seemed about to draw back again, to avoid Rand as he had avoided him so many times. "You little monkey-man!" Rand was shouting at him. "Stand still and . . ." That was all that he said.
Then Montgomery hiccoughed, "Who said he was dead?" The Monkey-man looked guiltily at the hairy-grey Thing. "He is dead," said this monster. "They saw." There was nothing threatening about this detachment, at any rate. They seemed awestricken and puzzled. "Where is he?" said Montgomery. "Beyond," and the grey creature pointed. "Is there a Law now?" asked the Monkey-man.
He then set forward for another part of the country, only too glad to leave the haunted plain behind him. Long, long ago, there lived in the province of Shinshin in Japan, a traveling monkey-man, who earned his living by taking round a monkey and showing off the animal's tricks. One evening the man came home in a very bad temper and told his wife to send for the butcher the next morning.
It was a reference to a travelling circus that had lately visited the place and exhibited a young chimpanzee advertised as "the monkey-man," and Bill guffawed appreciatively. The stranger was quite close and heard plainly, for indeed the youth at the gate had made no special attempt to speak softly.
Lora, alarmed, thought she was seriously hurt or hysterical from fright; but the laughter was too hearty and appealing. "Oh, Meeslora! Oh, Meeslora!" she gasped. "He must be monkey-man he has monkey tail!" Lora could have fainted from chagrin and horror. Had the great god Pan passed her way?
There was a whole group of Dummer Pines: Levi, the little wiry, witty poacher; Cornish Bill, the honest-hearted old peasant, with his stalwart figure and uncouth dialect; and David and Ned all good men and true; and Malachi Chroak, a queer, withered-up, monkey-man, that seemed like some mischievous elf, flitting from heap to heap to make work and fun for the rest; and many others were at that bee who have since found a rest in the wilderness: Adam T, H, J. M, H. N These, at different times, lost their lives in those bright waters in which, on such occasions as these, they used to sport and frolic to refresh themselves during the noonday heat.
If it has made itself master of the general evolution idea, then descent, even in its most gradual, continuous, monophyletic form, affects it not at all. It can then look on, perhaps not with joy, but certainly without anxiety, at Dubois’ monkey-man and Friedenthal’s chimpanzee.
The Monkey-man bored me, however; he assumed, on the strength of his five digits, that he was my equal, and was for ever jabbering at me, jabbering the most arrant nonsense. One thing about him entertained me a little: he had a fantastic trick of coining new words. He had an idea, I believe, that to gabble about names that meant nothing was the proper use of speech.
"Mahdi was then very young," said Madame. "He has been reared with great tenderness, and is now probably the most valuable, and he is the rarest animal in the world. Professor Thunder has been offered thousands of pounds for Mahdi, but refuses to part with him, preferring to take the marvellous monkey-man through the world for the education and edification of his fellow-creatures."
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