12 LOLA 



request of an entire stranger. Another time, should a 

 similar trial be contemplated, it would be wiser if the 

 article to be named by the dog were even if handed 

 up by the person desirous of making the test shown 

 him by someone with whom he is familiar. 1 



" Gradually Rolf became tired and rapped out : 

 ' lol bd ' (i.e. Rolf bett = Rolf to bed). A pause 

 was made during which some of Rolf's earlier communi- 

 cations were made public. One was his reply as to 

 why dogs do not like cats 2 this ran : ' lol imr hd 

 dsorn wn sid kdsl, freigt fon wgn grain. Lol hd lib 

 sis dsi di nid dud grdsn lol, abr, andr hundl, di nid 

 gnn ir.' (= Lol is always angry when he sees cats, 

 perhaps on account of their claws : Lol loves sweet 

 Daisy, who doesn't scratch Lol but other dogs who do 

 not know her.) 



" On 20 August, 1914, he rapped out a remark that 

 referred to the war ; it had, of course, been difficult 

 to explain the nature of war to him ; the only way 

 in which it seemed at all possible to bring this to his 

 understanding was by comparing it to the scuffling 

 and quarrelling of dogs on which he observed : ' lol 

 grn (i.e. gern = likes to) raufn, mudr frbidn (i.e. 

 Mutter verbieten = Mother forbids) abr franzos raufn 



1 Frau Dr. Moekel told me that she again asked the dog on the 

 following day what the article shown him had been and he answered : 

 " hd sdld bei arm grosfadr grab lib maibliml " (Hat gestehlt bei 

 des armen Grossvaters Grab das Hebe Maibliimchen) (Had stolen 

 from dear grandfather's grave the dear little lilies-of-the-valley 1). 

 The object shown him had been a lily-of -the- valley, and a few 

 days before, Frau Moekel's mother had told the children that she 

 had taken all the lilies-of-the-valley to their grandfather's grave, 

 Rolf, therefore, seemed to have conceived the idea that the flowers 

 shown him had been pilfered. ZIEGLER. 



The hatred of dogs for cats is hereditary ; it is an instinct 

 common to all dogs, and, seeing that instinctive sensations do not 

 owe their origin to any deliberate act of reasoning, it is generally 

 difficult to account for them. It is therefore worth drawing atten- 

 tion to the fact that Rolf did, nevertheless, make an attempt at 

 giving a reasonable reply. ZIEGLER. 



