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me again." She then responded with " 32." I took my 

 pencil, scratching out each dot as I went over them 

 there were just 32 ! 



As she had hesitated in the first test I thought I 

 might have made the dots too small, so taking another 

 bit of paper I proceeded to make dots of a larger size. 

 " How many ? " I asked again. Answer : " 14." 

 I then checked this reply and found it right. The 

 next day I covered another sheet with dots, but this 

 time of various sizes. Lola rapped "27." " Are you 

 sure ? " I asked. " Yes ! " So I counted, and there 

 were 23. " Count again 1 " I commanded. " 27," 

 said she. " Lola, I can only make them 23 ; " " 27 ! " 

 insisted this dog ! I could not make out the reason 

 for this, unless, that owing to there being some 

 writing on the reverse side, a few marks may 

 have shown through, and thus account for the wrong 

 answer. 



On 19 April I made an attempt with red dots, 

 but she was tired, and rapped out first 25, then 23 

 and finally 19 there were 19 dots. Then I made some 

 blue dots and she rapped " n." " Are you sure ? " 

 Again " n." And this, too, was right. 



I put this test several times and it was always 

 successful when the dots were sufficiently large and 

 regular and did not exceed 35 ; also if the colour was 

 dark either blue or black. Later on, when I read 

 KralTs book I found that the horses had been sub- 

 mitted to this test with equally good results. Pro- 

 fessor Kraemer of Hohenheim attributes the reason 

 for this to the fact of animals having originally lived 

 in herds, and that their " leader " as well as the other 

 horses always knew whether their full complement was 

 present or not. I have had the same experience with 

 clucking-hens. A clucking-hen with twelve chicks 



