The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
THE ORIGIN OF MAN.
BY DARWIN.
CHAPTER L

lays; the sky was one vast sheet OF
blue. Everything, in short, was full of
sweetness and light, except the lovely
Lady Adeliza de Chimpanzee. She
WAS in the dumps. Moodily she rub
bed her shoulder against huge palm
tree, and while performing that act
heaved great sigh. Just at that mo-
ment her mamma dropped from the
tree above her.
"My daughter, said the Duchess de
Chipanzee, "why that sigh ?"
"Ah, mamma, look at me, said Lady
Adeliza. "See how different am from
the rest of our tribe. See how white I
am becoming"
"My daughter" said the duch' IS
lapguidly, as she seated herself on a
convenient boulder, "you should be
proud of that difference. We are a
higher race"
i ST don't know, mamma. See what
little caudal appendages we have all
the other folks can hang from the trees
by their tails, but we are compelled to
sit on the limbs"
"We are advancing, nay dear. You
are winter than am ; you can talk in
your youth, I could not till middle age;
your grandfather, as you know, can
only grunt it. You are moving to a
higher sphere"
"Well, mamma, none of our folks
will marry me, )" said Lady Adeliza pout-
ing.
"No, my child; it has been decreed
that there should be selection of the
fittest in marriage. We have offered
you to the Prince d'Ourang Outang,
who is even whittier than you are, as a
wife"
"Oh, mamma" gushed the little
Adeliza, "That's splendid. Will he
come soon"
"Restrain yourself. People of high
blood and short caudal appendages
never get excited. He will be here in
short time"
Lady Adeliza went away to look for
cocoanuts; the duchess sat on the rock,
and refectively scratched her head.
CHAPTER II.
The Duke de Chimpanzee was chief
of very large tribe. If he had been in
the show business he would have made
his everlasting fortune. He had but
one child, the lady Adeliza, and, as she
would inherit the live stock over which
he ruled, many of the neighboring chiefs
desired to marry her. Her parents,
however, resolved that she should be,
| if possible, the four tain-head of the
now race, to which all their traditions
taught them they were working up.
They determined that she should wed
the Prince d'Ourang Outang. The duke
proposed the matter to the prince.
cav" said the prince, as he ad-
justed his eyeglass, els it nice p
"she is very beautiful" replied the
duke.
cav /" said the prince, give it-aw
much stamps p
81 shall give her all Ethiopia" re-
piled the duke.
CT will-aw-step down, and-aw-
look at it," murmured the prince, care
lessiy. "By surprise, you know"
This was agreed upon and the duke
departed.
The prince knew his worth he was
quite white, and he was not troubled
with the slightest particle of cardal
appendage, but Ethiopia was big
prize, and he resolved to win it.
One week after the duke had offered
his daughter, the prince started for
Senegamoia with the intention of look
ing at the fair face of Lady Adeliza.
CHAPTER III.
The prince was wandering through
the woods of Senegambia, gaily hum
ming:
"Td be butterfly
Born in a bower"
when his eyes fell upon lovely chin
panzee, sitting in shallow brook, suck
ing cocoanut. She was the lovelieet
creature he had ever seen. His heart
was touched at once. He raised his
eye-glass and stared at her until her
eyes fell in modest confusion.
"Fair chimpanzee, said he, "will
you not-aw-tell me your-aw-- name"
"Adeliza," whispered she.
The Duchess de Chimpanzee, who
had witnessed the meeting from behind
clump of bushes, chuckled, and slid
off on her left ear.
"Adeliza," sighed the prince, "thou
art-aw-beautiful Wilt thou-aw-
marry me2"
The Lady Adeliza threw the remains
of her cocoanut at the head of a Chin
panzee who was loafng in neighbor-
ing tree, fell in the arms of the prince,
and gently murmured, clam all thine.
They were married in great splendor.
The Rev. Bishop Balloon, assisted by
the Rev. 5imiadar Ape, performed the
ceremony. The bridesmaids wore their
natural clothes. The choir sang that
lovely anthem, Monkey married the
baboon's sister," Lady Adeliza and her
parents rubbed noses, and then the
bride started on her tour on an elephant
with one trunk.
CHAPTER ".
The seasons changed; summer lspsed
into autumn, autumn into winter, and
winter into spring. Then there was
great rejoicing, for the Lady Adeliza gave
the prince an heir. The child, however,
was an anomaly in that region it had |
no tail, it had fat feet, it had white
skin, it had no hair on its body. All |
the wise men examined it. 1t was not
an ourang outang, it was not chimpan-
gee; it was a new species. Then a
family couclave was called.
"What shall we call it?" asked every
body.
The Duchess de Chimpanzee, who |
was languidly making mud pies, said +:
"Let's call it-Man. THE ArcadiGn.
The Southern Society Girl.
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