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forget his look of astonishment and horror as he yelled 
out: ‘Damnation! What’s that?’ I can also well 
remember my own feelings of satisfaction and com- 
placency when the ‘natives’ congratulated me on my 
success in this, my first case. I walked off, as if saying 
to myself: ‘I knew I could doit.’ Well, Jack remained 
awake about three days, and then I got a message that 
my patient was off again. I went up and tried the 
battery a second time, with only the effect, however, of 
making him open his eyes and grunt, out “Eh?” ina 
querulous manner, and after looking about him for a 
half hour or so, he lapsed into his former condition. 
Next day I again tried the battery but without the 
slightest effect, so I gave it up as a hard case. 
“This is all I have to say about this singular object, 
except that, of course, he becomes very thin and 
haggard before he rouses finally in the spring, and he 
does not fairly waken until the end of May or first of 
June. During the summer months Jack does exactly 
the work he is told to do, but he must be told over 
again every day; for example, if desired to bring the 
cows from pasture he will do so, but will not milk 
them until told to, nor will he turn them a-field again 
without being desired. He does not seem to know 
what to do next, even though the same routine is 
carried out every day. An exception, however, must 
be made in one respect. He does not require to be told 
when dinner or tea-time arrives, and is blessed with an 
excellent appetite. Jack is always ready for his food, 
and is not particular about quality, so that quantity is 
there. He will talk quite rationally on any subject 
when spoken to, and recollects distinctly most of the 
incidents of his childhood. -He will hold animated 
confab with the cows, dogs, trees, wheelbarrow, or any 
other object which happens to be in his way, and may 
be noticed sometimes lecturing a tree for some time, 
