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Title: Four-handed folk
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918
Subjects: Animal behavior Monkeys
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ting subjectof study, as well as the funniest fellow in NewYork. VI. THE SPIDER MONKEY.I. GILA. The dearest pet I ever had, said tlie friendwho told me this true story, was a Spider mon-key of Central America. I was greatly pleasedwhen she was given to me, for I had often lin-gered in my walks to look at her pranks in thej)lace which was then her home. The particular thing that had amused me washer fondness for horseback-riding, and the cun-ning way in which she managed to gratify hertaste for that sport, at the exiDcnse of the pigsthat were kept in the same yard. Sitting inperfect silence on the low branch of a tree, shewatched her chance, and the moment a pig wan-dered under her hiding place, she swung herselfdown and pounced upon him, taking a good gripof his ears to hold on by. The steed needed no spur. He galloped off atthe top of his speed, and tore furiously aroundthe yard, evidently not pleased to play horse,but unable to shake her off till she was tiredand dismounted herself.
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THE SPIDER MONKEY THE SPIDER MONKEY. 121 Unlike most of the race, spider monkeys arefond of standing erect, and I often saw her walk-ing about with tail held above her head, thetip curled over like the end of a letter S. Ithink I never saw anything more funny thanGila (whose name was pronounced Heela) walk-ing down the garden path, swinging a tin pailin a business-like manner, as a workman carriesa dinner-pail. Gila was a very pretty creature. She wasmore than two feet tall, and weighed twelvepounds, which is quite heavy for one of herfamily. Her dress was a suit of long, light-yellow hair, lighter than many of her kind, and,after a few weeks care and combing, it becamebeautifully soft and silky. Her face and handswere black, and her knees and feet. The skininside her long tail was also a satiny black.With this most useful tail she could not onlyhang from a branch, but could hold objects.Whenever she snatched anything and ran awaywith it, which I regret to say was a favoritetrick, she

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