Sketches from a Student's Window
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (9781150160387)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: W.D. Ticknor Subjects: American literature History / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / American / African American Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE MONKEYS IN PROCESSION. A Traveller in Africa was one day astonished to observe a vast procession of monkeys marching over a plain, with countenances indicative of the deepest sorrow. There was the little frisky green monkey -- but his countenance was grave and wo-begone; there was the red monkey, and the baboon, and the chimpanze, and all seemed full of grief, as if some great calamity had befallen them. Instead of the leaps and frolics and grimaces usually seen among this four-handed family, they marched forward with long and regular steps, to a grave and solemn tune, sung by a choir of appointed howlers. After marching a considerable distance, the vast procession, consisting of many thousands, approached a low mound of earth. Here the head of the train halted, and the rest came up and arranged themselves around the mound. Then the whole troop set up a most piteous wail; then some of them began to dig into the mound of earth, and pretty soon they disclosed the half-decayed skeleton of a monkey. This was raised upon an altar, and then all the monkeys bowed down to the bones, and paid them reverence. Then one of the most noted of the monkeys, a famous lawyer among them, stood up and made an eloquent address. The monkeys, apes and baboons sobbed, and sighed, and howled, as the orator proceeded. At length he finished with a pathetic and sublime flourish, and...

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