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move. We left her for fifteen minutes, and, then returning, 

 sounded the fork near her five times without making her move. 

 She probably remembered her former experience and profited 

 by it. 



August 3. — Her memory proved short. She dropped eleven 

 times before remaining quiet, as the fork approached. More- 

 over, she was very slow about returning after each fall, so that 

 it took a much longer time than usual to teach her to pay uo 

 heed to the sound. 



August \. — She seems to be in better mood to-day. After 

 the seventh trial she gave no sign of hearing the fork. 



August 5. — Education begins to affect her character. When 

 the fork was sounded she seemed startled, and ran up a little 

 way on the band of rubbish, but quickly returned to the centre. 

 This she did a second time, but to nine subsequent trials, the 

 fork being held both behind and in front of her, she gave no 

 response. 



August 6. — We could not make her move, though we sounded 

 the fork nine times. 



August 7, 4 P.M. — Eight attempts failed to move her in the 

 least. 6.30 P.M. — Made eleven trials, with the same result. 



Ausrust 8. — Sounded the fork near her fifteen times, but she 

 did not move. 



August 9. — Seven trials ; the spider remained perfectly quiet. 



August 10. — She has spun herself a new web inside the cir- 

 cumferential lines of the old one, preserving the debris in its 

 original position. (This is the fourth web she has spun since 

 we found her on July 18.) The fork was sounded ten times, 

 but she paid no attention to it. 



August II. — She seemed more nervous. At the first trial 

 she dropped two inches ; at the second and third, she fell about 

 a quarter of an inch, and immediately ran back. Five subse- 

 quent efforts failed to move her. 



August 12. — In the morning we made nine, and in the after- 

 noon eight, trials with the fork. The spider gave no sign that 

 she heard anything. 



August 14. — A day and a half having passed without a 

 lesson, the spider was somewhat startled at the approach of the 

 fork, falling a very short distance the first time it was sounded, 

 but after that remaining imperturbable. 



