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Show I I. There It a strange little bcatt In the wilds of Madagascar. Nobody, ho we vir fclentirir, nolle knows li jw toclasalfy It. A (art ntly It might be a monkey, but It lint. It Is more liko tho night walking monkeys than liko any otlior animal, however, aud so naturalists liavo finally dcclJod to claaa It among tho leranrolJs. Still that does not 1 roicrly place it, and accordingly, since they ha 1 no nlrhe In which to hang It up, learned tneu ilecldeil to comi romitti by git lug It the longeat name thoy could und-chlromys,Mad gaacarlensls. That was how they took nungo on the jioor little fellow. Ilut the natives of Mnttbroacar hal another an-other and bttur name for tho nondescript non-descript creature, Tlicy nameil it from Ha cry or song htnevrr the cliel-roinys cliel-roinys MaUgaacarieniis walked abroad In the ghostly hours to get the Unit, Insects In-sects or fruits which formed Its nightly bread It nonll call out "I-I," or MA) e-aye, e-aye, as the sdentlflo men Utiided to sjall It, In order that the name might not be so shamefully unaclentlllo In Us ahortueas. If things go wrong or things go right still the little beast cries "Aye-ayo. "Aye-ayo. Through storm anl sunshine, through jlentyor hard times, through peace or war, jolly or broken heai-tod, tho burden of its song Is still the same "Aye-aye 1 Has tho dear public ever heard of this Utile animal called tho nye-aye? Nay, may It not even lu that wo liavo lure the lnlaamg link, anl that the ayo-oyes descendants are acatUrvd throughout all chlllzallou? |