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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER VI: SOME THEORIES, DARWINIAN AND OTHERWISE
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That's personality." "Well, then, there's only one other thing to do," said Darwin.
"Munchausen claims to be able to speak Simian.

He might seek out some of the prehistoric monkeys and put the question to them." "No, thank you," said Munchausen.

"I'm a little rusty in the language, and, besides, you talk like an idiot.

You might as well speak of the human language as the Simian language.

There are French monkeys who speak monkey French, African monkeys who talk the most barbarous kind of Zulu monkey patois, and Congo monkey slang, and so on.


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