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" C. REPORT ON THE DOG HARRAS 



" The third dog, Harras, came into the possession of 

 Fraulein Eva Hoffmann, of Schloss Berwartstein, 

 near Bergzabern, and was instructed by her in spelling 

 and arithmetic with excellent results. This lady sends 

 the following report : 



" ' From the very beginning his gift for arithmetic 

 was quite remarkable. It was enough to give him an 

 idea of how to reckon, explaining to him the different 

 forms of arithmetic, for the dog to learn to give the 

 right answers to easy sums immediately. 



" ' Fractions, decimals, cubes and the easier forms of 

 equation, have been set him by a stranger. With 

 some coaching he was also able to master textual 

 problems in this way, giving eager and glad response 

 in the form of " yes " and " no " when it came to ques- 

 tioning him as to his having understood or not under- 

 stood liked or not liked the subject. He usually 

 did his sums with evident pleasure and with amazing 

 celerity. Spelling gave him more trouble. He could 

 not even remember an alphabet he had himself put 

 together, and one I invented for him he only memorized 

 after going over it many times. He took no pleasure 

 in putting words together and got tired very soon. 

 Some of his original remarks are that he recognized 

 Sunday by the "dress" I had on ; also that he had 

 dreamt of a " cow " (this after having seen one when 

 we were out walking), and so on. 



" ' Remarkable is his love of truth ; should he have 

 done anything that deserves punishment, he ap- 

 proaches me with his head hanging down and a 

 very dejected tail replying to the question as to 

 whether he deserves a whipping with a reluctant 



