human
Queer chap . . . whispered Gran'pa.
gpt
But what can one expect? A man with a power like his must be abnormal.
human
Yes. . . . I suppose so!
gpt
He simply doesn't know what fear is. He handled that gorilla and chimpanzee at the Zoo like a mother of ten managing her latest arrival. And yet he'd never seen anything bigger than a pet monkey before.
human
How did you discover him?
gpt
Advertised, and then wrote and arranged an interview. He used to be a lion-tamer. At the same time, I fixed up with those menagerie people at Bristol to allow me a few minutes intercourse with their gorilla. They have what is supposed to be one of the finest specimens in Europe; and, what is better still, it's wild. Every attempt at taming it has proved useless.
human
A sort of Alfred the Second,
gpt
By jove! he murmured, reminiscently.
human
It seems twenty or thirty years ago since . . . that affair. To tell the truth, I can't recollect much about the brute. Was it very ferocious?
gpt
It is not seemly that we should speak ill of the departed, I said,
human
Anyway, _I_ can never repay the debt I owe him . . . mused Gran'pa.
gpt
It's strange to think that millions of years ago we severed our connection with the apes and strode upwards into manhood; and now . . . we're returning to them again to save the aged of our race.
human
It's like making brothers of our first cousins,
gpt
It's been a very busy day, he said, with a yawn.
human
And I'm not as young as I used to be, George. . . .