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jumping and pawing to hit this cord, and were then given a 

 chance to learn by seeing i do so, escape, and, of course, he 

 fed. i always jumped in the same way, biting the cord at 

 the same place, namely, where a loose end from a knot in it 

 hung down 4 or 5 inches. 2 and 3 would either be tied up 

 in the pen or left in a pen at one side. They had a perfect 

 chance to see i perform his successful act. After every 

 twenty or thirty performances by i, 2 and 3 would be put in 

 alone. It should be remembered that here, as also in the 

 previous experiment and all others, the imitators certainly 

 wanted to get out when thus left in alone. They struggled 

 and jumped and pawed and bit, but they never jumped at 

 the cord. Their records follow: 



TABLE 6 (b) 



1 The back of the pen adjoined the elevator shaft, being separated from it 

 by a partition 33 inches high. No. 2 heard the elevator coming up and put 

 his paws up on the top of this partition so as to look over. In so doing he 

 knocked the fastening of the cord at that end and opened the door. He 

 did not turn to come out, and I shut the door again. 



