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learning apart from the specific experiments described was 

 certainly confined to the association of impulses of their 

 own with certain situations. The following examples will 

 suffice : 



In getting them so that they would let themselves be han- 

 dled it was of almost no service to take them and feed them 

 while holding them or otherwise make that state pleasant 

 for them. By far the best way is to wait patiently till they 

 do come near, then feed them ; wait patiently till they do 

 take hold of your arm, then feed them. If you do take them 

 and hold them partly by force, you must feed them only 

 when they are comparatively still. In short, in taming 

 them one comes unconsciously to adopt the method of re- 

 warding certain of their impulses rather than certain con- 

 ditions which might be associated in their minds with ideas, 

 had they such. 



After No. i and No. 3 had both reached a point where 

 both could hardly be gotten to leave me and go back into 



