Mamma, give the young one a banana to give to Emil." The banana was brought and the Wilbur twin cautiously extended it.

Emil, at sight of the fruit, chattered madly and tried to leap for it.

He appeared to believe that this strange being meant to deprive him of it.
He snatched it when it was thrust nearer, still regarding the boy with dark suspicion.

Then he deftly peeled the fruit and hurriedly ate it, as if one could not be--with strangers about--too sure of one's supper.
The monkey moved Dave Cowan to lecture again upon the mysteries of organic evolution.
"About three hundred million years difference between those two," he said, indicating Herman and his pet with a wave of the calabash.

"And it's no good asking whether it's worth while, because we have to go on and on.