“Then he forgot how cold he was, and played with the ring.

The little child forgot all his woe.

He seized upon the ring and said, ‘What is this?’”

—Zingerle, p. 51.

[108] Kind und Welt, pp. 58, 61.

[109] In Nacht und Eis, vol. i, p. 222.

[110] J. G. Romanes, Animal Intelligence, p. 493. See, too, Ellendorf’s beautiful description of the monkey playing with matches, Gartenlaube, 1862, p. 300.

[111]

“There, see, the curtain dark already rolls away!

The night must fly, now dreams the glorious day;