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To carry out his idea, Clement invented his screw-engine lathe, with gearing, mandrill, and sliding-table wheel-work, by means of which he first cut the inside screw-tools from the left-handed hobs the reverse mode having before been adopted, while in shaping machines he was the first to use the revolving cutter attached to the slide rest.
'Yes, he's a two-faced mangle, repeated Dilly. He turned round on her sharply. 'Now, don't talk nonsense! You're a silly girl. I never said anything about being a two-faced mangle; I'm a blue-faced mandrill. 'Well, I said so; a two-faced mangle. 'Don't say anything at all if you can't say it right, said Archie, raising his voice and losing his temper. 'Well, they's both the same.
The largest and most remarkable of all the baboons is the mandrill of West Africa, whose swollen and hog-like face is ornamented with stripes of vivid blue and scarlet. This animal has a tail scarcely two inches long, while in size and strength it is not much inferior to the gorilla.
When Dilly had just gone to sleep in her cot a frightening figure crept into her room and turned on the electric light. 'Oh, Archie! What is it! Who is it! Oh!... Oh! 'Don't be frightened, said Archie, in his deepest voice, obviously hoping she would be frightened. He was in pyjamas and goggles. 'Don't be frightened! Now! Say what I am. What am I? 'A blue-faced mandrill, she whined.
And perhaps this was as much as the state of knowledge at the time warranted. But how it came about that Buffon failed to perceive the similarity of Smith's 'Mandrill' to his own 'Jocko, and confounded the former with so totally different a creature as the blue-faced Baboon, is not so easily intelligible.
The habit with the mandrill and drill seems to be instinctive or inherited, as it was followed by very young animals; but it is modified or guided, like so many other instincts, by observation, for Von Fischer says that they take pains to make their display fully; and if made before two observers, they turn to him who seems to pay the most attention.
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