Fora moment tho eyes looked nt me;^then seeing that I was frloudly the Innl^to which tliey Iglllllingil nunc nut, and thi '^^dso txiforo me the Inner of the RU gterii IS^serpentino object^a monster so tall and^slender, so completely given over tu urn:-,^and mil, that 1 could only compare it to a^gigantic t-| iilrr coming out of Its den. It^stood up, reaching one long, attenuated^arm almost to my shoulder, and then I^perceived that It hold under the other thu I^puppy, whoso blue eyes lilliil.nl at me In^amazement. Another stop and out came^the kitten, the monkey's marvclnus tall,^which was llko a fifth hand, still clashed^flnnly nliout her leg.
Thiswas my llrst meeting with Mingo. '^the spider monkey, and tho llrst of many^Visits that ripened into good acquaintance^and fellowship, fpon leaving his liouso^Mingo ussuined a parfeotly upright posi^^tion, holding ^^ne hand over his head, and^then occasionally dropping to all four* In^grossed tho little grass plot and easily^swung himself Into u tree. His long tall^stretched out to its full length, and by It^ho iw tually lifted the UttM until when^four or five feet from thu ground shn [^icrmnl'liHl at the limb ami aided herself^tp. Mingo finally settled himself on t i^boujCi ^v.'rti the puppy, which he held^^JosVly In his arnn^.v C. K. Holder.
Wluit He UsStM a liny.
ItIs said that as m^n grow old they^fancy what they knew and !^^^betterthan what CM be bad .it the present^day. The feJhnvii',! story is told of t' ^^director of u large corporal Ion:
Onomorning he hupis'iied income across^the dinner pail of the ofJi o boy. His curi^^osity hsl him to take off the cover.
Aslice of hoinemiioVd bread, two dough^^nuts and a piece of apple plo templed the^millionaire's appetite. Ho liecame a boy^again, and tin dtapjarpafl seemed to ho the^one ho carried lio Jt:iri :c-.
