The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-13
THE ORIGIN OF MAN,
BY DARWIN.
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CHAPTER ls
Twas lovely summer morning in the
year 9O01 before Christ. The woods of
Senegambia we're clothed in their fair
est costume; the lovely birds were
chipping and singing their morning
lays; the sky was one vast sheet of
blue.s verything, in short, was full of
sweetness and light, except the lovely
Lady Adeliza de Chimpanzee. She
was in the dumps. Modify she rub
bed her shoulder against huge palm
tree, and while performing that act
heayed 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 L,dy
Adeliza. "See how different am from
the rest Of our tribe. See how white I
am becoming."s s~-yss
"My daughter" said the duche So
languidly, as she sea.ei, herself on a
convenient boulder, "you should be
proud Of that difference. We are
higher race" .,-r
"I don't know, mamma. See what
little caudal appendages we have all
the other folks can harg from the trees
by their tails, but we are compelled to
sit on the limbs"
l"We are advancing, my dear. You
are winter than !, am you can talk in
your youth, could not till middle age;
your grandfather, as you know, can
only s@unt il 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 winter than you are, as
wife,"
s~Oh,, mamma guahed the little
Adeliza, "That's splendid. Will he
come soon ?". q
,aRestr.iin yourself People of high
blood and short caudal appendages
never get excited. He will be here in
short time." T9t5ttt -
Lady Adeiiza went away to look for
cocoanuts; the duchess sat on the rock,
and Relatively .ecrStnhed 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 fouLtain-head of the
knew 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.
"Aw!''' said the prince, as he ad-
justed his eyeglnss. "Ia it nice ?"
"She is very beautiful" replied the
duke.
CAV T. said the prince, "give it-aw
much stamps ?" ..-.
81 shall give her all Ethiopia" re-
piled the duke.
81 wi1l-aw-step down, and-aw-
look at it." murmnfed the prince, care
Iessly. "By surprise, you know"
I 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 a 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. &. ri
The prince was wandering through
the woods of Senegambia, gaily hum
"rd be butterfly
Born in bower
| when his eyes Tell upon a lovely chin
panzee, sitting in shallow brook, suck
ing a cosoenut.S 8he WIS the lovelest
GRE ,ture he had Asers seen.a His heart
vas touched. at once. He raised his
eye-glass and stared at her until her
eyes fell in modest confusion.
y "FAir chimpanzee," said he, twill
you not-aw-tell me your-aw--name."
L 50 Adeliza," whispered she. -.
s. The Duchess de Chimpanzee, who
had witnessed the meeting from behind
a clump of bushes, chuckled, and slid
off on her left ear. ...-.,
"Adeliza," sighed the prince, "thou
art-aw-beautiful! Wilt thou-aw-
|smarry me?"
The Lady Adeliza threw the remains
Of her oocoanut at the head of a Chin
panzee who was loafing in neighbor-
ing tree, fell in the arms of the prince,
and gently murmured, "I am all thine. :"
They were married in great splendor.
The Rev. Bishop Baboon, assisted by
the Rev. Simiadar 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 lepsed
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 fiat feet, it had q white
skin, it had no hair on its body. All
the wise men examined it. It was not
an ourang outang, it was not chimpan-
zee; it was a new species. Then n
family conclave was called.
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