At the sight of this prodigy the multitude
was seized with a delirious joy, and bore Galibi
with acclamation to the throne of his fathers.
Adversity had made him compassionate, and
his own past faults had taught him indulgence ;
he governed his people wisely, and attained to
an extreme old age, beloved by all his subjects.
He put his old nurse in a most comfortable
position, and, having finished learning the
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reading the curious memoir which that young
savant submitted to his learned brethren, in
which he deplored the suicide of the Simius
Loquax which had deprived him of the plea-
sure of exhibiting it before the scientific so-
cieties. To console him for this misadventure,
Galibi sent him (without any explanation),
by a special ambassador, the order of the
Zodiac in diamonds, with a liberal pension for
his domestic, Hermann. Thus Franz Graupen
had the satisfaction of saying, that if he
had not been a prophet in his own country,
there had at least been found in distant lands
a Prince sufficiently intelligent and sufficiently
learned to appreciate at its full value, and in
all its importance, the discovery of the Simius
Loquax, or, in the vulgar tongue, The Talking
Monkey.
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THE GLOW-WORM.
