into the stream of history and of human consciousness as

of the kingdom for many a year; he has also with him an ape with the

most extraordinary gift ever seen in an ape or imagined in a human

being; for if you ask him anything, he listens attentively to the

question, and then jumps on his master's shoulder, and pressing

close to his ear tells him the answer which Master Pedro then

delivers. He says a great deal more about things past than about

things to come; and though he does not always hit the truth in every

case, most times he is not far wrong, so that he makes us fancy he has

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