Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — A Baboon’s Dinner. [ARTICLE]

A Baboon’s Dinner.

One day a good preacher, Bishop Colenso, was walking along the Donga river, in South Africa, when he saw a number of baboons sunning themselves in a little hollow of the ground. The baboons lay upon their backs and their eyes were half closed, just like lazy Uncle George's are when he is taking a snooze on the lounge. Two or three of the young balloons were at some distance from the old ones, playing and romping, for baboon children dearly love to romp. By-and-by one of the

young ones, turning up a stone, lit upon a partieularly-fine and fat scorpion, which, with a scared glance round at his elders, he seized and popped into his mouth, having first pinched off the sting. He at once proceeded to turn the stone over again with great pains, as though in further unsuccessful search for scorpions. He had not escaped notice, however, for down the gully in a sluggish roll came a great baboon, who seized the young one by the scruff of his neck, shaking him vigorously until the plump morsel dropped from his pouch. Having gobbled this up the elder baboon at once regained his lounge, and all went on as before in the sleepy hollow.—Philadelphia Times.