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lating what she understood Into active motion ; and 

 this applies to all, excepting, of course, such move- 

 ments as are the result of heredity, where no words, 

 but some other incentive, such as " scent " may 

 possibly come into play. It is difficult for human 

 beings to grasp that there is life in the sub-conscious, 

 and that it is in those sub-conscious regions that the 

 will to act arises. 



I now explained to her : " When you give you 

 left paw once, it is to count as ten ; when you give 

 your right paw once, it is to count as one only. For, 

 you see, if we go on counting there is too much work 

 for one paw to do and it takes too long. Therefore 

 if you want to say ' 12,' you must give the left paw 

 once, and the right paw twice." I repeated this several 

 times and then asked : " How do you rap fifteen ? " 

 And Lola rapped one (10) with the left paw and five 

 times with the right. It was evident that she had 

 understood me perfectly I 



This gave me confidence, and that day we did 

 additions up to twenty, all of which were successful. 

 Indeed, the dog showed much interest in her work, 

 and came to it readily. As a rule ten to fifteen minutes 

 in the morning, and another quarter of an hour in the 

 afternoon was lesson-time. As the results were 

 generally successful, I was sometimes tempted to 

 continue my questions for a little longer, and she would 

 go on answering until at length she began to sigh 

 then I knew that she was tired. And after such 

 extra exertion I would notice the next day both by 

 the pupils of her eyes and her nervous trembling, that 

 she had been over-worked and the thought of it 

 makes me feel ashamed, even to this day ; for, was I 

 not undertaking the whole study for the sake of 

 animal creation, and to think that I might have been 



