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the apparition lie stood still, growling furiously; 

 he began to bark, and when I 'encouraged him to 

 come on, he turned round and ran back to the house. 

 I shut up the dog in another room, brought back 

 the bogey to its former place, and threw a strong light 

 upon it before recalling the dog. At the first sight 

 of the bogey the dog paused suspiciously for an 

 instant, but when I sat down to the table as usual, 

 he hesitated a little and after snuffing at it went back 

 to his couch. 



I have made similar experiments with dogs, 

 rabbits, birds, and other animals. I took long 

 wooden poles, and put them inside their cages or 

 hutches in such a way that the animals got to know 

 and feel reconciled to the sight of them. After some 

 days had elapsed, I contrived, while screened from 

 sight, to take the poles from their usual place and 

 to make them touch and annoy the animals with 

 more or less violence, thus causing them to flutter or 

 scamper about and to shrink away, as if from the 

 touch of a living person, although they were unable, 

 as I have said, to see me or nay hand. Those which 

 were least agitated sprang forward with little leaps 

 and looked about them, doubtful and excited. I 

 might go on to describe many other experiments made 

 with the same object, and always with the same 

 result, but these are enough to show that I went to 

 work cautiously and conscientiously, that the spon- 

 taneous and innate personification of the objects 

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