At Any
Rate He Fought Savagely, According To His Small Powers.
We took
him ignominiously by the scruff of the neck, haled him to camp,
and dumped him down on Billy.
Billy constructed him a beautiful
belt by sacrificing part of a kodak strap (mine), and tied him to
a chop box filled with dry grass. Thenceforth this became Funny
Face's castle, at home and on the march.
Within a few hours his confidence in life was restored. He
accepted small articles of food from our hands, eyeing us
intently, retired and examined them. As they all proved
desirable, he rapidly came to the conclusion that these new large
strange monkeys, while not so beautiful and agile as his own
people, were nevertheless a good sort after all. Therefore he
took us into his confidence. By next day he was quite tame, would
submit to being picked up without struggling, and had ceased
trying to take an end off our various fingers. In fact when the
finger was presented, he would seize it in both small black
hands; convey it to his mouth; give it several mild and gentle
love-chews; and then, clasping it with all four hands, would
draw himself up like a little athlete and seat himself upright on
the outspread palm. Thence he would survey the world, wrinkling
up his tiny brow.
This chastened and scholarly attitude of mind lasted for four or
five days. Then Funny Face concluded that he understood all about
it, had settled satisfactorily to himself all the problems of the
world and his relations to it, and had arrived at a good working
basis for life.
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