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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
" The following day I went through my
performances quite mechanically, for my thoughts
were all upon the event of the evening, when
I, for once in my life, should see a real
performance. But perhaps, I thought, the
people would look more at me than at the
niggers, and even annoy me. Before starting,
Carlo said to me : ’ You are not going to sit
on my shoulder this time, Jock, going through
the streets, but will just have to be quietly
esconced under my big jacket, for nobody
must see you, or they wouldn’t let you in."
He placed me there accordingly. I kept very
still in my hiding-place, and we went to the
show, where we ascended some stairs, the
last of a large crowd, and got a place so far
behind that everybody turned their backs
upon us. I could thus with more safety pop
out my head and look on. A great number
of niggers, all in white bibs and dress-coats,
which made them look very like Jem Crows,
were ranged in two long rows. There were
two fellows, one at each end of the front row,
whom I thought at first were two baboons
that had gone mad."
" Did you ever hear of a baboon going
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