For there, with his face all swollen, stood a bad old baboon who had escaped from the monkey circus down the street.
And her mamma saw the baboon running away, and, without even stopping for the spool of thread, she came home and felt very badly that Pinky had been frightened.
But you were very brave to hand the mumpy baboon a lemon," she said, and I think so, too, for it was just the right thing.
The Arabian baboon itself is a very interesting creature, for it is one of the animals which were venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
There is another baboon called the drill, which is not unlike the mandrill in many respects, but the swellings on its face are not nearly as large, and they remain black all through its life.
The baboon had then taken refuge in its box on top of the pole to escape the sjambok, and when Seedling saw Jock come out he commenced whistling and calling softly to him.
We knew the danger well, for there was a fighting baboon at a wayside place not far from us--a savage brute, owned by a still greater savage.
That was in his public capacity: in his private capacity he was the owner of the fighting baboon of evil and cruel repute.
But apart from this the baboon was an exceptionally big and powerful one, and it is very doubtful if any dog could have tackled it successfully in an open fight.
The dog had no chance at all, for the baboon remained out of reach in his house on the pole as long as it chose, if the dog was too big or the opening not a good one, and made its rush when it would tell best.
The cruel brute deserved killing, but the human look and cries and behaviour of the baboon were too sickening; and Seedling went into his hut without even a look at his stricken champion.
When Jock was sent spinning in the dust the baboon recovered itself first, and standing up on its hind legs reached out its long ungainly arms towards him, and let out a shout of defiance.
Once it got a grip the baboon threw itself on its side or back and, with all four feet holding the dog off, tore lumps out of the helpless animal.
Then the baboon began gradually to reduce its circle, leaving behind it slack chain enough for a spring; but Jock was not to be drawn.
The following afternoon we set off with our guns and blankets, a little food for two days, and the tiger-trap; and by nightfall we had reached the foot of the Berg by paths and ways which you might think only a baboon could follow.
When he was fifty yards from the passage he saw the first baboon perched upon a shoulder of rock above the entrance.
His hand was on the horse's mane, when just above its head he noticed a clean patch of granite, and across that space he saw a huge grey baboon leap, and then another, and another.
The Baboon prefers to walk on all fours like a quadruped, and instead of living in forests, they choose the mountainous districts, and rocky places covered with bushes and brush wood.
Why, as my baboon is by title a princess, I think we cannot create him less than a prince.
As they were laughing at him, all at once he stopped, and putting his hands to his mouth he gave the growl and roar of a leopard, which they had heard, and then set off running away baboon fashion.
The baboon took the envelope, read the address written upon it and said "he would see.
To Jimmieboy's eyes they were merely plain everyday circus clowns, but the way the baboon made them prance around was wonderful.
First a baboon came out and announced a performance by six trained clowns, who he said would crack jokes and turn somersaults and make funny grimaces just as they did in their native lair.
The porter informed the baboon who in turn acquainted the baby elephant with the fact, whereupon the baby elephant took off his hat and bowing politely to Jimmieboy hastened back to the mayor's office with the little boy's reply.
Then I opened the door and went in with my bargain but began debating in my mind what to do and said, "How shall I manage a meal for the baboon and myself?
While I was looking around, I espied a man passing by and leading in an iron chain a dog-faced baboon and crying "Haraj!
The baboon was now close to her, wondering no doubt, as to who and what she was.
To Elsie and her kind the baboon took the place of the dragon, the giant, and the gnome, around which cluster the terrors of northern childhood.
And that odious baboon with the red bristles does the same thing,--only he goes to her because he doesn't dare to go to you.
He understood well who it was whom his wife intended to describe; but that she should have spoken of any man as a baboon with red bristles, was terrible to his mind!
She would have spoken of no man as a baboon with a bristly beard.
Of the bristly baboonhe condescended to say nothing, and he wound up by giving her a cold kiss, and saying that he would meet her at Lady Monk's.
The number and the nature of the teeth remain the same in the Baboon as in the Gorilla and in Man.
Many odd stories are told of the chacma baboon among the settlers of Southern Africa, such as their robbing the traveller of his food, and then going off to some distance, and mocking him, while they devour it.
After which he let forth a roar of laughter that suggested a crazy baboon roaring in the night.
Suppose they are all there, the glassy-eyed one, the big man like a baboonand his son, the three all alike, and the others!
Now, though Isuro had the leaves about him, he did not dare to produce them at the last moment lest the baboon should guess why he had stayed behind.
One day, when the sun was hotter even than usual, the rabbit awoke from his midday sleep, and saw Gudu the baboon standing beside him.
Now one of the friends was a big white rabbit named Isuro, and the other was a tall baboon called Gudu, and so fond were they of each other that they were seldom seen apart.
But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner hid the meat behind him, so that the baboon could not find it.
I spoke hastily; you are innocent,' said the old man; 'but now let the baboon do likewise.
Both the baboon and the bear look better fed than their owners, the contributions of the onlookers consisting chiefly of eatables, bestowed upon the animals for the purpose of seeing them feed.
How Lewis Baboon came to visit John Bull, and what passed between them.
Shall I serve Philip Baboonwith broadcloth, and accept of the composition that he offers, with the liberty of his parks and fishponds?
When Philip Baboon came first to the possession of the Lord Strutt's estate, his tradesmen,* as is usual upon such occasions, waited upon him to wish him joy and bespeak his custom.
His servant brought him word that one Lewis Baboon below wanted to speak with him.
This baboon was extremely gentle and docile, and its master had given it an excellent education.
The Empress was much amused at seeing the baboon lose her dignity so completely under the influence of this lady.
It will be thought that either the word Baboon is misplaced or the barring is wrong, but it is not so.
The Monkey and the Baboon them was sitting on the wall, Rise a roof in the morning; I an' my wife cannot agree, Rise a roof in the morning.
Kees still persisted in his intention, till we were almost out of his sight, when he found himself at length compelled to dismount, upon which both the baboon and dog exerted all their speed to overtake us.
Le Vaillant, a traveller in Africa, had a dog-faced baboon which accompanied him on his journey, and he found its instinct of great service to him in various ways.
In the upper story of one cage a lady baboon was embracing an urchin of her own, while underneath her husband was turning over a pile of straw in a persistent search for small deer.
The Urchin was greatly interested in the baboon rummaging in his straw.
The baboon immediately came down, and it was remarkable how he brought down the basket without upsetting it.
Then we looked up at a tree and there was an enormous baboon looking down at us, while with one hand he held the basket, which was resting on a branch.
But now her grief was turned to gladness, for lo, and behold, there was the baby asleep in the basket on the veranda, while the baboon sat on a pile of bananas giving a strange monkey call to other monkeys.
Whereupon I jumped off the carronade and, by way of assisting his digestion, I served out to the baboon monkey's allowance, which is more kicks than halfpence!
When the baboon sat down on his hams he was about as tall as the boy when he walked.
