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THE MONKEYS.
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is placed with the Hindoo priests. " Don’t you
understand that music should be listened to,
not looked at, and when these fellows make
themselves all black, it is like singing behind
a screen; people certainly stare at them, but
they can’t see any expression in their faces,
and consequently pay more attention to the
music, and relish it all the more."
" No expression ? why, you should only see
their eyes, rolling about like sea-gulls in a
thunderstorm! There was also a negro lady
amongst them who sang beautifully. ’She was
so splendidly got up, and I have never seen
a more elegant dress or a more graceful train
behind any street-organ performer of my rivals,
or at any monkey performance either,’ said
Carlo; and he has taste, I can assure you. She
sings the same song every night, and has
done so for more than ten years, so successful
is she ; and they won’t have any other !"
"Poor thing!" exclaimed all the listeners
in chorus.
" Oh, I could have hugged the beautiful
creature!" said Jocko; " she was so like a
lady monkey at the distance ! Up to this the
programme was excellent! I wish you all
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