It was, therefore, stretched on a plank, like a nabob in his palanquin, that the chimpanzee made his first appearance at Rockhouse.
When the cavalcade arrived there, all the family, with the exception of Ernest and Frank, were still asleep.

The first thing they did was to clothe the creature they had captured in a sailor's pantaloons and jacket, with which he seemed rather pleased, and the result of this operation was, that he began to assume a less ferocious aspect, and behave more respectfully towards his captors.

All the family had sat down to breakfast, when Fritz and Jack, taking him by the hands, led him gravely into the gallery.

A cord was attached to his legs, allowing him to walk, but was so arranged that he could not run.
On his appearance the young girls fled at once; and, more accustomed to drawing-rooms than the rude realities of savage life, Mrs.
Wolston's first impulse was to do the same.
"Goodness gracious!" she cried with an air of alarm, "what horror is that ?" "That, madam, is precisely what we have been anxious for the last two or three hours to find out," replied Fritz.
"Does the creature speak ?" "Up till now, madam," replied Willis, "he has only opened his mouth to swallow my calabash of Malaga; beyond that, he has kept as close as a purser's locker." When the first shock had passed, and the company had regained their self-possession, Jack related, with his customary originality, the incidents of the nocturnal expedition, of which Fritz was the originator, leader, and hero.

The ladies then, for the first time, were made acquainted with the doubts, fears, perplexities, and battues, which, out of gallantry, they had hitherto been kept in ignorance of.