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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Of course, I have to take the ship captain's word for what happened before I bought him, but from the way the chimp developed and the intelligence he displayed after he came into my possession, I am prepared to believe it. He told me that he got him from the natives at the mouth of a small river on the West Coast, where he anchored his steamer to trade.
Jerry's face showed his disappointment. If not a chimp he had hoped for a parrot or at least a canary. "Not a one," said Mr. Bullfinch. "Guess I'll have to wait till they auction off some of the animals in the Washington zoo." "They'll never do that." "I was only joking. Do you have any pets?" "Just a cat named Bibsy because she has a white front. Like a bib, you know."
"Heaven forbid!" gasped his mother. "But chimps are wonderful pets. Remember reading about that chimp that does finger painting? Her owner sells the pictures. Actually gets real money for them. That's more than old Andy gets for his finger painting," said Jerry. "Not if I wanted to," said Andy.
He has never met any animal except adult human beings. It would take an awful lot of explaining to make him understand the difference between, say, a chimpanzee and a man. Why should a hairy pelt and a relatively low intelligence make a chimp non-human? After all, some men are pretty hairy, and some are moronic. "Present company excepted." More laughter.
"I never saw such a mixture of good antiques and trash," said Mrs. Martin. "Say," said Jerry, "if Mr. Bullfinch does have a chimp for a pet, maybe Andy and I can teach him finger painting. Then if we sold the pictures Mr. Bullfinch would give us part of the money." Cathy made a noise that showed what she thought of that idea. "You and your schemes!" said Mrs. Martin.
He saw one of the movers going in the house next door with a small gilded cage in one hand and a picture frame in the other. After him came the other moving man with a cage so large it was all he could carry. "The smaller one could be for a bird but what on earth could the big one be for?" Mrs. Martin was puzzled. "Maybe he has a chimp for a pet," Jerry contributed.
Several large oil paintings were carried into the house next door, but they were too far away for Jerry to judge if they had been painted by a chimp. He guessed not. Pictures painted by chimps weren't usually put in heavy gold frames. In went a tall grandfather clock, a full-length mirror with a gold eagle on top, an immense old-fashioned roll-top desk.
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