Part 31 (1/2)

'Another Archie!' said Dugald, 'and a countryers Archie, boy! He is swinging in some tree-top, no doubt'

'What a queer fellow he s in tree-tops, and is shy! A _rara avis_ indeed'

'Ah! here he co out of doors, lay the table, bring a jug of cold _hlander He was quite as tall as our Archie, and though the herht him in Central Africa for about sevenpence halfpenny in Indian coin, he had now the wrinkled face of an old man of ninety--wrinkled, wizened, and weird

But his eye was singularly bright and young-looking In his hand he carried a long pole from which he had bitten all the bark, and his only dress was a little petticoat of skunk skin, which the her

'Coentlemen, Archie'

Archie knitted his brows, and looked at us withouthorn-riravity of some ancient professor of Sanscrit, then looked us all over once again

We could stand this no longer, and so burst into a chorus of laughing

'Don't laugh longer than you can help, boys See, Archie is angry'

Archie was He showed a ered his club in a way that was not pleasant

'Archie, you may have some peaches presently'

[Illustration: Intervieith the Orang-outang]

Archie grew pleasant again in a mo all the time, however, as if he had so our hands pretty hard Neither my brother nor I made any remark, but when it ca his fingers, and blowing on them 'I believe he has , 'he knows you are a nareat baboon, and to our intense astonish, placed table and caravity and decorum of the chief steward on a first-class liner

I looked at my brothers, and they looked at me

'You seem all surprised,' the hermit said, 'but re to see baboons of this salish nobility Well, I a; why should not I also have an anthropoid as a butler and valet?'

'I confess,' I said, 'I for one am very much surprised at all I have seen and all that has happened since last night, and I really cannot help thinking that presently I shall awake and find, as the story-books say, it is all a dream'

'You will find it all a very substantial dream, I do assure you, sir But help yourself to the _mate_ You will find it better than any imported stuff'

'Archie! Archie! Where are you?'

'Ah! ah! Yah, yah, yah!' cried Archie, hopping round behind his ar, Archie'

'Ah, ah, ah! Yah, yah!'