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“Kindly look at this red spot on my back,”
says Edward. “I thought at first it was only
a flea-bite, but now it burns like a blister. I
cannot stand it any longer, cannot you give me
something to take away the pain?—no, not there,
higher up, come closer, I know you are
somewhat shortsighted, let me show you the exact
spot!” The same instant he sits in his trapeze
grinning maliciously at me through my spectacles
before breaking them to pieces to be presented
as souvenirs to admiring comrades. Monkeys
love to make fun of us. But the slightest
suspicion that we are making fun of them irritates
them profoundly. You must never laugh at a
monkey, he cannot stand it. Their whole nervous
system is extraordinarily sensitive. A sudden
fright can bring them almost into hysterics,
convulsions are not very rare amongst them, I
have even attended a monkey who suffered from
epilepsy. An unexpected noise can make them
turn pale. They blush very easily, not from
modesty, for God knows they are not modest,
but from anger. To observe this phenomenon,
however, you must not look only at the monkey’s
face, he often blushes in another, unexpected
place. Why their Maker, for reasons of his own,
should have chosen this very place for such a
rich and sensitive carnation, such a prodigal
display of vivid colours, crimson, blue and
orange, remains a mystery to our uneducated
eyes. Many startled spectators do not even
hesitate to pronounce it at first sight to be very
ugly. But we must not forget that opinions as
to what is beautiful or not are much at variance
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