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tuition, this having awakened her latent consciousness, 

 and enabled her to master the signs. 



In the summer of 1916 I purchased a grey parrot 

 with the object of further studies. This bird, being 

 very tame, was allowed to sit on the back of my 

 chair and enjoy a few tit-bits at meal times. I always, 

 carried him on my hand from his cage to the chair, 

 as he would not come down from the cage preferring 

 to clamber about without and within. One evening 

 I had been delayed, and did not appear as punctually 

 as usual. My maid told me, however, that the parrot 

 had left his cage at eight o'clock, gone straight to my 

 chair, climbed up, and was even at that moment 

 sitting on the back-rail waiting for me ! 



How sensibly animals are equipped as to the 

 requisites of life ! Probably man was, too at one 

 time ; at a time when he stood nearer to Nature, 

 and before his inventions and manifold accessories 

 had weaned him from so much that was inherent and 

 inborn knowledge. 



