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inclined to make her look at the paper attentively, 

 but she would merely glance over it, then came a 

 moment of quick thought and the answer was ready. 

 (I propose to return to this point again in the chapter 

 on " Seeing.") 



In the course of such exercises it is no exaggeration 

 to say that one does actually see, by an alteration in 

 the eye, that the dog is thinking ; the gaze is withdrawn, 

 so to speak, as it is in the eye of a person engaged 

 in the process of thinking ; and then brightens when 

 the result has been attained. I have often been so 

 absorbed in contemplating this process in Lola that 

 I have almost forgotten to continue the work we were 

 engaged on. 



As the lessons progressed it became easy to teach 

 her to read the letters, for she now knew what it was 

 all about, and she soon picked up the figures requisite 

 for any given letter. Personally, I always use the 

 Latin script for writing, and it was therefore more 

 convenient to teach her this form rather than the 

 Gothic, but for the sake of simplicity I made use of 

 the small characters only. I wrote these out on a 

 sheet of paper, taking care to make them very large, 

 and with the equivalent figure under each thus : 



a e i o u au ei 

 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 



and so on. 



I then gave a short explanation and stood the sheet 

 on the floor again just as I had done in the case of 

 the figures. 



The next day I questioned her, taking the precaution 

 to write out a few letters on another piece of paper, 

 so as to be able, by comparing the two, to know 



