I leaped out after him, but he jumped into the bucket, took hold of the chain, and let himself down, grinning at me in mockery, and when I drew him up again he jumped into the water with the remains of the book." "And the poor wretch is drowned ?" asked Pentaur.
"I fished him up with the bucket, and laid him to dry in the sun; but he had been tasting all sorts of medicines, and he died at noon.

My observations are gone! Some of them certainly are still left; however, I must begin again at the beginning.

You see apes object as much to my labors as sages; there lies the beast on the shelf." Pentaur had laughed at his friend's story, and then lamented his loss; but now he said anxiously: "He is lying there on the shelf?
But you forget that he ought to have been kept in the little oratory of Toth near the library.

He belongs to the sacred dogfaced apes, [The dog faced baboon, Kynokephalos, was sacred to Toth as the Moongod.

Mummies of these apes have been found at Thebes and Hermopolis, and they are often represented as reading with much gravity.