| Show from travels how the apes catch crabs in java JL after walking close up to the old camhong cam pong peng they were anthe on the point of turning back bach when young fellow emerged from the thicket and said a few words to the gandoor man door the latter turned with a laugh to frank aud and asked him him bim if lie bei bad ever over seen the ape apes catch crabs frank replied in the negative and the in and akin ghis hand iad led him gently and callously through the deserted vila village to a spot which the young fellow had pointed out and arid where the old forr formerly perly planted hedges h g rendered it an art easy dasy task for them to approach p ah unobserved A at t I 1 length they reached the boundary boudary of tho tb former settlement a dry sandy soil and nd strip of beach where all vegetation cease dand only I 1 a single tall pa tree whose roots were thickly U I 1 interlaced with wih creeping plants formed as it were the advanced post of the vegetable kingdom behind this they crawled along and cautiously rai ral raising s ing their heads beads they sav saw several apes at a dis ais distance tance of two or three thre indred hundred bt paces who weme were partly looking for something as they walked ti op P A and down dorwn the beach while others stood motion 4 less it was the long tailed brown variety arul ami frank waa was beginning to regret that hallad he had bad noi not his telescope with him to watch which the movements movement dof of these strange beings more closely when one ode of them a tremendously large fellow began to drave draw nearer to Us them I 1 carefully examining the ground over ever which hs h went on conall all ali fours be stood at intervals interval sto to scratch h himself ime if or to snap at some insect that buzzed sound him lle he camb came up so close that Frank fancied that he must scent them and give tho tha alarm to the other monkeys when suddenly passing over a little elevation covered with withered reedy grass he lie there discovered a of crabb crabs parading lug jug up and down on the hot sand with a bound he was veas amongst them but not quickly enough to catch a single one for the crabs though apparently so clumsy darted like alighi ning into a quantity of small hoes boles tir or caville cavities ca vitie vilie which made the ground here resemble a sieve and the ape could not thrust in his paw after the them 4 for the orifices were too narrow the gandoor nudged frank gently to draw his attention and they saw the ape after crait ing once or twice up and add down dowa the small smail strip of land and peering into the various hil hii holes hoies i with his nose close to tol the ground suddenly seat himself very gravely by one of them uble lilie he fa cled tied most suitable he then brought round mig hig long tail to the fiant h ont the end anaf of it into the thi cavity until he met with an obstacle obstacles and suddenly made a face which so amused frank that hl would have laughed loudly had bad not the ni andoor raised his finger warningly and directly after the ape drew out his extraordinary line lind withla wit hla hia jerk at the end of it however hung the desired booty a fat crab by one of its claws and swing swine t ing it round on the ground with such violence cs cz V to make it lose ltv it hold he took it in his left paw picked up a stone in the other and after crack z ing in the shell shelf devoured the savory contents with evident signs of satisfaction 4 four or five he be thus caught in succession on ont each occasion when the crab nipped him bingin making kin a a face of heroic resignation and pain bui but M each time he was successful and lie he must davk i found in the dainty dish and the revenge for tha iha nip nips abundant satisfaction for the pal pain n he e endured or else he would not have set to work again so sa I 1 soon I 1 thus then the ap aee ape e quite engaged with thi sport tand and without taking urne his eye off th the had approached to within about twenty paces of a the party concealed behind the tree here again the ground was full of hols hois and ard looking out the one he be conjectured to be ve the bes be he threw in lus ins line once more and probably pio plo bably babiy feb fe I 1 that there was wag something alive within for ha awaited the result with signs of i most aag eager r atten atlen tion it a H the affair however lasted longer than bearl hearl ha anti antl ci but being already toler tolerably bly filled by by past successful hauls bauls he pulled up his knees izil lail his lus long arms aims upon them bowed his head abs abl liala closing his eyes he assumed such buch a res gat e and yet exquisitely comical face as only an i ap is capable of putting on under these circum su suar ces but bat his quiet was destined to be disturb in a manner as unexpected as it was cruel 1 auit have discovered dc ds covered some eoma very guteres interesting c clouds fortha for he ads ita upshere up there fixedly ewhen when he suddenly uttered aloud yell left holdom of his knees felt with both hands for his tail tau and made a bound hound in the air as if the thie ground under him wad wag was beginning to grow red hot at the tha end of his tail however hu hung n a arigan n tic de crab erab torn toru with desperate energy arg from flav its hid ing ang ng place and frank could not restrain himself any longer but burst into a loud laugh the mand imand dor bor at first retained hi his s gravity but when the ape alarmed by the strange sound looked up tn in spite of his hia pain and saw men and alen then bound ed d oft off at full speed speedy with hi his s tormentor still dangling at the e end lid iid of his bis tail fail the he old man mam could no longer 1 refrain either and they both b oth laug laughed bidd fidd till tha the tears ran tau down their cheeks the tha ape i in n the meanwhile flew across the narrow strip of sand followed by all the others towards the jungle and in fil a moment momert after not a single one was vi sable |
