"I observe," said Doctor Darwin, looking up from a perusal of an asbestos copy of the _London Times_--"I observe that an American professor has discovered that monkeys talk.

I consider that a very interesting fact." "It undoubtedly is," observed Doctor Livingstone, "though hardly new.

I never said anything about it over in the other world, but I discovered years ago in Africa that monkeys were quite as well able to hold a sustained conversation with each other as most men are." "And I, too," put in Baron Munchausen, "have frequently conversed with monkeys.

I made myself a master of their idioms during my brief sojourn in--ah--in--well, never mind where.

I never could remember the names of places.