On Thursday the London Zoo is open until midnight. As
there are few amusements in London this is an event. The gentlemen go to the beasts in order to get a little jollier among them. Here is the chimpanzee's cage. The monkey looks at the visitors, mockingly. In front of her is a gentleman wearing evening dress with top hat. One cannot help being surprised—why is he not on the other side of the grating ? • The whole misfortune of the monkey is that it has no evening dress and is covered with hair ; but, really, it is much more human than the gentleman. The monkey realiies that the visitors are feeling dull ; that they are fed up with the clubs, libraries and fashionable shops ; and it tries to amuse them with splendid grimaces, worthy of a Shakespearian actor. But the gentleman maintains his demeanour ; he neither smiles nor knits his brows ; he stands motionless and
• dumb, in frotit of a manlike monkey.
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