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horses, and the issue was always more or less the 

 same. 



Again, I placed a scarecrow or bogey in a parti- 

 coloured dress in the spacious kennel of a hound 

 while he was absent from it. When the dog wished 

 to return to his kennel, he drew back at the sight 

 of it, and barked for a long while. After going back- 

 wards and forwards, snuffing suspiciously, he decided 

 to enter, but he remained on the threshold of the 

 kennel, anxiously inspecting the bogey. In a few 

 days, however, he became accustomed to it, and was 

 indifferent to its presence. I ought to add that I had 

 t;tught him on the first day, by punishment and 

 admonition, that he must not destroy the bogey. One 

 day when the dog was lying down I violently moved 

 the puppet's arms by a cord, and he jumped up and 

 ran barking out of the kennel, soon returning to bark 

 as he had done at first. Finally, he again became 

 accustomed to it, but whenever I repeated the move- 

 ment with greater violence, it took a long while for 

 him to become reconciled to it. 



I put into a room various kinds of wild birds, 

 which had been taken in nets after they were full 

 grown. The window, which looked upon a garden, 

 was unglazed, and closed by a wire netting, through 

 which the outer air entered and was constantly re- 

 newed. I placed in the middle of the room a pot 

 containing a shrub of some size, on which the birds 

 used to perch. Since they had been reared in the 



