Miscellany: The Orang Outang

PERE Caibai-sdil brongiit up an orang outnnp, which becnme so fond of him, that whereverhewcnl, it Vtwya seeined desirouB of accompanyinghim: whenevcr, tliorefore, lie had to perform the service of bis churcli, he j was nlwaysunderthc necessity of shutting it up in a room. Once, however, the animal escaped, and followed the futher to the chtucb, where, silently tnouiiting on t!ie eoimcing board above the pulpit, he lay perfpct'y still tiïl the sermón commenced. Hethen crept to the edge, and overlooking tlie preaclier, j led all hts gestores in fo grotcsque a mnnner i that the whole con e gatMJQ was utuivoidably caused to.'lHUgh. Tiie futhe-, e.irprised and confonndeJ ut this ill-timod levity, severely reproved his a-ulienne for their itmtiRiiiion.- The reproof faile.l in fts eff.'cf, tiie oi.grogiition still Isttfghéd, and the preaclier, in the warmth of liis zeal, re loubTed his vocifeiations and his ac:ioin: thöetho ape imititod bo exactly, that the oóiigiegatioh could no 1 nirer retnin themselves, But bnrat out uto a loud nïici continned laugli'or. A frïërid of the preaclier at íenwití steppe Í tip to him, and pointed out the cause of this irhpropër con Iuct : ond wich was i'ae nrcb deniejnor of this uninial, tint it w;n with the utni st tljfficnlty bf could comnnnd the in iscles of his couneiv anee, and keep himself apparently serioup, while he orderod the sfirvnnls of the churcli