[The Missing Link by Edward Dyson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Missing Link CHAPTER IX 4/7
They fed the Missing Link with spongecake and nuts, which he took from their hands and ate with a certain genteel decorum.
His manner of cracking the nuts was much appreciated.
Nickie was a specialist at nut-cracking, having made a special study of the subject at the Zoo. Some of the girls said he was a "regular dear," and threw him flowers, and frosty Miss Arnott relaxed her elbows a trifle, and admitted that this quaint creature was indeed entertaining and instructive--most instructive.
She had never met a more instructive creature.
And meanwhile Ammonia the gorilla shook the dividing bars, and reached fierce claws towards Mahdi, convulsed with jealousy, and inspired with a primitive yearning for nuts. Professor Thunder spread himself in the delivery of his learned oration on the origin of the human race, beginning with Spider, and ranging up to the wondrous Missing Link.
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