Then, as it were, stung into plain speaking: "Shamán say white man bring sicknessbring devils" "Maybe the old Orang Outang's right.

It seems that an ourang-outang which once escaped from some travelling menagerie, was re-taken at this place.

The Show Strikes Virginia and the Educated Ourang Outang Has the Whooping CoughThe Bad Boy Plays the Part of a Monkey, but They Forget to Pin on a Tail. CHAPTER XIX.

The Keeper Who Trained the Ourang Outang Took Me in Hand.

The Show Strikes Virginia and the Educated Ourang Outang Has the Whooping CoughThe Bad Boy Plays the Part of a Monkey, but They Forget to Pin on a Tail.

When we got to Richmond the whole population, principally niggers, was at the lot when we put up the tents, and everybody wanted to catch a sight of Dennis, the ourang outang, and the posters all over town that pictured Dennis smoking cigarettes with a dress suit on, and eating with a knife and fork and a napkin tucked under his chin, were surrounded by crowds.

The managers held a council of war and decided the show would be ruined if we didn't make a bluff at having an ourang outang, so it was decided that I was to be dressed up in Dennis' clothes, and put on a monkey mask, and go through his stunt at the afternoon performance.

Well, sir, the keeper who trained the ourang outang took me in hand, and in an hour I was perfect, I had rubber feet and wore black gloves, and had a tail fastened with a safety pin, that would deceive the oldest showman in the business.

I went through the whole of Dennis' performance and never skipped a note, until a smart white man yelled: "Where is the tail of your ourang outang?"

We talked of the Ouran-Outang, and of Lord Monboddo's thinking that he might be taught to speak.

'But, Sir, it is as possible that the Ouran-Outang does not speak, as that he speaks.

If you wish to become an ourang-outang, Then go to the bush of Australia.

If you wish to become an ourang-outang, Then go to the bush of Australia.

Chorus Illawarra, Mittagong, Parramatta, Wollongong- If you wish to become an ourang-outang, Then go to the bush of Australia.

If you wish to become an ourang-outang, Then go to the bush of Australia.

If you wish to become an ourang-outang, Then go to the bush of Australia I gladly worked my passage home, And now to England back I’ve come, Determined never more to roam, At least, to the bush of Australia.

If you wouldn’t become an ourang-outang, Don’t go to the bush of Australia.

[Illustration: Ourang Outang.]

The Ourang Outang is a species of the ape; it has long arms and hands, with very long fingers.

The very morning after that but one, Agnes and her black maid were milking our few cows upon the green: I was in the garden, and William was toddling about pulling flowers, when, all at once, the women were alarmed by the sight of a tremendous ourang-outang issuing from our house, which they had just left.

Before I reached the green where the cows stood, the ourang-outang was fully half a mile gone, and only the poor, feeble exhausted women running screaming after him.

Keeping still his distance before me, he reached the Keys river, and there the last gleam of hope closed on me, for I could not swim while the ourang-outang, with much acuteness, threw the child across his shoulders, held him by the feet with one paw, and with the other three stemmed the river, though then in flood, with amazing rapidity.

The remainder of us, nine in number, were obliged to go half a day's journey up the river, to a place called Shekah, where the Tambookies dragged us over on a hurdle; and we there procured a Kousi, who had a hound, which he pretended could follow the track of an ourang-outang over the whole world.

As he was searching, however, he perceived an ourang-outang steal from a thicket, which, nevertheless, it seemed loath to leave.

ANTHROPOID APES, a class of apes, including the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, and gibbon, without tails, with semi-erect figures and long arms.