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The child caught hold of a limb and gleefully crawled out upon it some distance beyond the elephant's reach. Once there, she became frightened, not daring to crawl back. She prattled "elephant talk," but the old fellow could not reach her. The baboon in the near-by cage set up a chattering. The child ordered the elephant to rise on his hind legs.
He's been very decent to me in our walk though you did say such extraordinary things to him this afternoon. I believe he really wants to make amends." "I do hate his white eyelashes so," said Kitty, slowly. "What does it matter," cried Ashe, angrily, "whether he were a blue-faced baboon! for two nights? Just listen to him a little, Kitty that's all he wants.
One day, when the sun was hotter even than usual, the rabbit awoke from his midday sleep, and saw Gudu the baboon standing beside him. 'Get up, said Gudu; 'I am going courting, and you must come with me. So put some food in a bag, and sling it round your neck, for we may not be able to find anything to eat for a long while.
On the contrary, all stages of industrial conscription exist simultaneously even today, and it would be possible by going from one part of Russia to another to collect a series of specimens of industrial conscription at every stage of evolution, just as one can collect all stages of man from a baboon to a company director or a Communist.
"That sister of Rouget must have seen a monkey before her son was born," said one; "he is the image of a baboon." "He has the face of a brigand and the eyes of a basilisk." "All artists are like that." "They are as wicked as the red ass, and as spiteful as monkeys." "It is part of their business."
The water-hens dived, and the parrots chattered on the trees, as if they had been peopled with scolding married women; whilst the sluggish baboon sat, with portly belly, gormandizing with the voracity and gravity of a monk, regardless of all but the stuffing of his insatiable maw with bananas."
The baboon was regarded as the emblem of Tahuti, the god of wisdom; the serious expression and human ways of the large baboons are an obvious cause for their being regarded as the wisest of animals. Tahuti is represented as a baboon from the first dynasty down to late times; and four baboons were sacred in his temple at Hermopolis.
After being there a fortnight two servants gave notice to leave, stating that the place was haunted by a large cat and a big baboon, which they constantly saw stealing down the staircases and passages.
"That she hates the very sight of her husband, Masapo, and says that she would rather be married to a baboon yes, to a baboon than to him, which gives him offence, after he has paid so many cattle for her. But what of this, Macumazahn? There is always a grain missing upon the finest head of corn.
"Drill them? Ah! there is a baboon called a `drill. Yes, go on," I said. "We could send them out every night, and they'd come back laden with mealies for us; and there you are." "Nice evening, gentlemen," said Sergeant Briggs, who had just climbed to our side. "I've been using the Major's glass. My word! they've got wagon after wagon loaded with stores across yonder.
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