22 LOLA 



"D. REPORT ON THE DOG ROLAND 



" Little Roland, who received his first tuition from 

 Frau Dr. Moekel, unfortunately came to an untimely 

 end owing to an accident. 1 Concerning this, Frau 

 Dr. Moekel wrote to me in March, 1915, as follows : 



" ' My dear little Roland whom we called " Guckerl " 

 (= Peep-eyes), because of his wonderful eyes, has 

 been run over by a motor-car. He suffered terribly 

 for two days and died on 19 March. His death is 

 not only a sorrow to me, but a loss to the interests of 

 the cause we have at heart, for Roland had begun to 

 make the most delightful remarks quite spontaneously. 

 On the last evening before the accident, he came to 

 me and without having been questioned rapped 

 out : "Rolf ark bei (s) d arm roland " (= Rolf has 

 badly bitten poor Roland). I was not able at the time 

 to translate his little utterance, and it was only after 

 his death that I remembered my notes. Then, on 

 putting them together it transpired that Roland had 

 been bitten by Rolf because he had chased Daisy, our 

 kitten. 



" ' Roland could recognize money, stamps and bank- 

 notes ; he could count flowers and bricks, and knew 

 all the various colours and scents as well as count 

 tones, recognize melodies and tell the time." 



" I have not added my report made with reference 

 to Lola to the above, the object of my book being to 

 make the reader acquainted with this dog." 



1 Frau Dr. Moekel taught another young dog, called Lux, as well 

 as Roland, the former being taken over by a gentleman in Mann- 

 heim. In a protocol dated 14 June, 1914, I stated that Lux was 

 able to do a certain amount of arithmetic at the age of four and 

 a half months. 



