THK PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ANIMALS. 4S 



4:7(h day. — I notice that the precocious bitch acts towards the whip much as an old dog 

 or a half grown one often (h)es. This is difficult to describe. The animal shows that it 

 understands what its relations are but seems to combine a sort of pleading with humour. 

 It is complex, however, and must be witnessed to be understood. 



The individual that was trodden upon now retires to another part of the compartment 

 when I appear; there is evidently a very unpleasant association of ideas. 



At 11.30 p.m. I went to the kennel to see how all my dogs were as the night was very 

 close. The door directly opposite the puppy kennel was open. I had no light and walked 

 softly, 3^et two of the puppies lying against the wire-mesh partition, some six or eight feet 

 from where I stood in the darkness, awoke and soon began to cry as I passed close to the 

 closed main kennel door. The old dogs were heard sniffing. They evidently detected me 

 by the sense of smell. 



Was it wholly so in the case of the puppies or were they assisted by sight ? Hearing 

 may, I think, be excluded, though not with perfect confidence so sharp now are their ears. 



In any case this observation is of much significance, even it be granted that they were 

 not asleep at the time I stood before the door of their kennel. It is further to be remem- 

 bered in this instance that by a misunderstanding the puppies had not had their last evening 

 meal and also lacked water. 



48th day. — It remains warm. The flies are troublesome, and as the puppies lie asleep or 

 trying to sleep, the same movements of the skin of the head, of the ears, etc., may be seen as 

 in mature dogs when flies irritate these parts. 



49th day. — To-day for the first time the puppies were removed for a time to a part of the 

 yard inclosed by wire-mesh. The earth furnishes a fresh surface Avith various small objects 

 on it. 



The puppies proceed to investiyate as when before they were given free access to new 

 surroundings. 



They seize and carry small objects which they take from each other, indulge in play and 

 evidently experience keen enjoyment. After say half an hour they lie down and sleep. 



When I call "puppies " from a veranda at a height of about 20 feet and at about the 

 same distance on their plane they look up ; some of them at least at once to my surprise, for 

 I expected they would not be able to detect the direction of the sound so quickly. 



The bitch puppy was taken upstairs in my house to-day to be weighed. She, like two 

 of the dogs, seemed abashed by the new surroundings, but soon recovered, and when some 

 one entered bj- the front door downstairs, one story, turned the head in the direction of the 

 sound. 



bOth day. — When crying this morning one of them was well whipped with the result 

 that it remained quiet for some hours after. Dogs young and old easily acquire habits good 

 and bad, and barking and crying are examples, and sometimes one or two whijipings that 

 are felt puts an end to what renders the dog wretched as well as those who must 

 listen to him, hence the treatment alluded to above. 



In attempting to give them some bromide of potassium to quiet their uneasiness it is 

 found that they Jiyht ayainst the unpleasant stuflj", and it is with difficulty they can be made 

 to swallow it at all. 



515/ day. — They are awake very earl\' (4 a.m.) and eager for food and exercise. 



I moved a whip over one that had been making a good deal of outcry. She looked as 



