a half-frightened, half-funny look that plainly said

"Of course, they'll pay me out if they catch me; but really the chance was too tempting. Didn't I take a jolly rise out of the old boys!"

This was the speech with which the keepers introduced the monkeys to the notice of the menagerie visitors. Little Jollyman had heard it so often that he could say it almost as glibly as Barney:

"Of monkeys, ladies and gentlemen, there are two kinds-those of the Eastern and those of the Western hemisphere. The former have the same number of teeth as we have-that is to say, thirtytwo, and nostrils that almost run into one another. The latter have parallel nostrils; and while some have six grinders on each side of the jaw, others have four more false molars and four fewer true molars than the monkeys of the Old World. Observe the chimpanzee in the striped jersey. He chews tobacco, and sheds tears of natural grief

for the loss of his spouse, to whom he was tenderly attached. That is the orang-otang, which, in its native forests in the Indian Archipelago, roams a hairy monarch of the woods, carrying a club in its hand like Hercules. The next specimen is a Hanuman, or sacred monkey. It is looked upon with reverence in India, where large flocks of them go every day to the temples, and are fed by the priests and worshippers. Yonder you see the gorgeously-coloured, but ferocious mandrill of West Africa. The negroes have to flee before it. Like a Yorkshireman, it will keep a stone seven years in its pocket, and then turn it, but at last wreak its vengeance on the object of its treacherous rage. It is the most irritable animal in all creation, and has been known to die of a wild fit of passion. Those are macaques, and some of them, you will observe, have not much more of a tail than a Manx cat has.

“The Barbary ape is the only species of monkey found in Europe, and there, in a wild state, it is

The

rapidly becoming extinct. There are only two or three still left on the rock of Gibraltar. The spider monkeys come from South America. They have no thumbs; but this want is made up to them by the strength of their tails, by means of which they hang from boughs and swing themselves from tree to tree. The pinch monkeys and marmosets swarm in the forests of tropical America. They are full of frolic, and of an affectionate disposition. They feed on fruits and humming-birds. lemurs have fox-like heads, and sharp claws on the first fingers of their hind limbs. Their other nails are flat. They live on trees, but, unlike the spider monkeys, they cannot swing themselves from bough to bough by their tails. If, however, you present them with a handful of nuts, you will see that they can tackle them as cleverly as the others. The lemurs are natives of Madagascar, and, like the Australian opossums, are liveliest at night, coming home, as the song says, 'with the milk in the morning.""

The far-off places from which his menageriepets came impressed little Jollyman greatly. He formed vaguely jumbled, and yet very vivid visions of the dim forests in which they had wandered, and wished that he could understand their language, so that he might be able to talk to them about the wonderful sights they had seen. It seemed very strange to him that his marmoset should munch so contentedly common English apples. Next to being a Lion King, little Jollyman thought it would be a grand thing to be a great traveller, rambling all alone, except for a dog or two, through those far-off, dim, mysteriously-haunted woods and jungles.

CHAPTER V.

A TIGER HUNT IN ENGLAND.

OME people think that tigers cannot be

SOME

tamed; but this is quite a wrong notion. Tigers have got so fond of their masters that they would fawn upon them, and lick them, and follow them about like dogs.

There was a tigress at Jollyman's that would let Smith and Barney, as well as M. Sohier, pat her and pull her about; but next to her there was a tiger into whose cage even the Lion King durst

not venture.

Hyder Ali, that was the tiger's name, was a magnificent creature to look at. His brownish-yellow back was as glossy as a horse-chestnut that has just fallen from the tree, his belly was as white as the lining of the split green husk, and the black