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...sits down to rest in a Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes...
...year ago, when the Philippine Legislature refused to accept their independence on the terms of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill, the principal monkey wrenches in the machines of ratification were the provisions that the United States Army and Naval bases would not be given up to Philippine control, and that a practically prohibitive sugar tariff would be levied at once. There is hardly any question as to the justice of the Island objections to harboring American Army bases on their otherwise independent soil. Obviously, independence in such a case would be but a gesture of none too friendly diplomacy...
...Albert. For seven days then, the Belgians had no king. They were lucky in their king-to-be. Like his father, Crown Prince Leopold has had a hard practical schooling. He has served in the Belgian Senate. He has specialized in the study of Colonial administration. He likes to monkey with engines; he drives his own car. But his hobbies are safer: trout fishing and collecting butterflies. In 1926 he married dark-haired Princess Astrid of Sweden after a courtship that set lady-novelists' hearts aflutter. In order not to attract attention Prince Leopold paid flying visits to Sweden...
Zion City is run by Overseer Wilbur Glenn ("The World Is Flat") Voliva of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. When he heard what the Christian Assembly Church, a schismatic upstart, was up to he became choleric, told his followers: "It's a publicity stunt. That church is a monkey house.'' Overseer Voliva sent his chief of police around but all that official could do was to have the loudspeakers shut off at night...
...always separated from human Milestones by what printers call a hair line, after the end of the human list. The death of Blue Boy, star hog cinemactor of State Fair, was thus reported, as were the deaths of Rin Tin Tin, Balto, Khartoum the elephant, Psyche the laboratory monkey...