All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . ct makesthem very bold and enter villages, sit in theporches and sills (preferablythose of the pastry - cook andcorn - sellers), and from theresteal when the masters back isturned, while the poor pastry-cook is not allowed to revenge himself, but simply sighs and keeps a betterwatch. The origin of this monkey-reverence is said to lie in the fact that its skel-eton bears some resemblance to man, and the natives believe that the souls ofthe departed come back, and are reincarnated in the monkeys. To molestone would rouse the whole vil
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . ct makesthem very bold and enter villages, sit in theporches and sills (preferablythose of the pastry - cook andcorn - sellers), and from theresteal when the masters back isturned, while the poor pastry-cook is not allowed to revenge himself, but simply sighs and keeps a betterwatch. The origin of this monkey-reverence is said to lie in the fact that its skel-eton bears some resemblance to man, and the natives believe that the souls ofthe departed come back, and are reincarnated in the monkeys. To molestone would rouse the whole village to fury, and there are many instances onrecord where hunters have come to grief by doing so. Though these monkeys live a secluded life under human protection,there is always one deadly enemy on the watch, the snake, which crawlsstealthily after them among the branches. The monkey, grown carelessthrough life with man, falls an easy victim to the snakes fangs. When asnake is discovered, the wThole neighborhood boils with excitement, and the. GIBBON (,.,„ Natural Size) THE ENTELLUS MONKEY.
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