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her eye, to which she at once replied with " 9, 17 " 

 aug (auge = eye) ; she had apparently not^been 

 quite sure of what I wanted when I touched her nose. 



And so we went on practising sometimes doing too 

 much, and this would give her a headache, but she 

 had also learnt how to communicate this fact to me 

 and would rap : " 36, 5 " = we (weh = pain, or hurt) ; 

 nor was this malingering, for she worked willingly, 

 doing so, indeed, to the utmost limits of her strength, 

 when it would become apparent, alas ! to anyone who 

 saw her that her head was aching. This tendency to 

 " keep going " is common to all our faithful domestic 

 animals : more particularly is it the case with draft- 

 animals, who will go on till they drop. Therejare 

 very few that consciously resist work, or who humbug 

 us by pretending they are ill. Yet, as I had told Rolf, 

 we had one of these exceptions at the farm ; it was 

 an ox that would always lie down and sham dead, if 

 not in the mood to work ; he then stretched out his 

 limbs and looked at his last gasp . . . but no sooner 

 did we leave him to himself than he was on his legs 

 again and off to his stall. No amount of chastisement 

 brought him to reason. And it was this immoral 

 action that had jumped with Rolf's views when 

 without having been asked he at once remarked : 

 " Hat recht, lol sagen Bauchweh I " an excuse he is 

 reported to have made very often of late. 



I now tried to teach Lola to read the numbers, for 

 she was thoroughly at home in all we had practised 

 so far, so it did not seem too much of a venture. I 

 cogitated, therefore, how best to begin ; and finally 

 I wrote on a sheet of paper as follows : 



and so on up to 10. 



