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Show 'HAD ALMOST HUMAN SENSE ' Baboon Which Acted as Aseistant Gw.tehman and Performed Other . Acts of Intclliosncc. t -. The most ri'ttiurkulilc Inslnnce of - slrulnn Intelligence which luis come under un-der my persnpu'l ohfurvtitlon was Hint of 11 hnbooii which tl let duty as points-hum points-hum nt the Important railway Junction of Ultcnhnge", In'the Olpo provlnee. --'- This nnlmul was owned hy the man ,, . -- M who worked the points hut whp hud ' - I1111I Until legs cut oh" in a railway neel- ' xdent. On the platform In his clinrgo '. there wen; six Igvor. 10 enehof which jti wns given a 'niiine. The mmi,fsnt""lti a- .jl . little wooden cabin with Ills under- K '" study and w.hunpxer ,"n ieyyr ri'imiied . , ' shifting he would pnH nut Its name. i ' At once the baboon' would swing the f- lever over. 'V .; i .In J he mornings tn; r.in Ids piaster i j down to tie sexne of his work In a r, m little hnnd'tWilley. which'on nrrlvnV'iit '? fl IfK doHllnatlon the, babooh Hhlftoti from ' ji i the line and j;toweii (iwny.r At nlgtit ,3 m he replaced ihr. Irnlley on the lino, ait "Jl w when his mnsttr had lukeu his i.ca't ' puslie(. It home 'iigaln. Mosl of the A; fk Journey lo the seene of tho. work ,,wua. -t J) down grade. On reaching the slope' - the habiiou' would spring upon the ve- ' nlrle mid evinced ih5 llvpllpsj wllsr ta; fncllnii 11s It sknnmcd nlong by gruvl- fc tntlon. ' OccaslonnHy' this animal wns I x brought to the linr of a certain hnlcl .j nnd Induced to act as waiter, He ' S would carry a targe truy on which J were glasses cbnlAlnlng-tlio various .-A. drinks, ordered b tio company, llpw. , ''JL ever, lie Insisted 'upon one condition- W a gluss rontnlnlng his own favorite tip- j? pie hud to be pliiccd on. the tray with the olliei-H. On entering tlio roopi A, where the guestu uero usscmhted tho ? waiter wntild vet down tho trny lul the-' ' '" j' Hour, after which ho would emply his t glass, ,'riieii he would walk with the ' trny from one guest to another, lint 4j If iinyono attempted to help himself from the (my before tin hud consumed !, hlx own drink, trouble, enxiieil; he would' hccouii! vlnletitly cnriiged nnd . semtcr the glasses In every illivetlon. This remnrknhle animal died uflur u lingering 1Iiio:ih Induced hy 11 blow on the hm-U of the liciiil Itilllcted hy a drunken tntui with a Imr or Iruii. W. S. Scully In Atlnntlc Monthly, |
