100 LOLA 



in spite of the fact that I was expecting it quite as 

 intently as I had looked for " Frieda " in the first 

 instance ; and what is more I cannot get the dog to 

 " take up " a new thought should she have already 

 " made up her mind " about a matter, as on the occasion 

 when she had been " naughty." It has constantly 

 happened that Lola has held out against me in the 

 matter of some figure in her sums and that later on 

 I have found myself to have been at fault, this showing 

 that the numerals " pictured " in my mind can have 

 made no impression on hers ; yet, on the other hand, 

 it has also happened that she has accepted my inaccur- 

 acies simply because she was tired, and did not want 

 the trouble of "thinking for herself." Indeed, I 

 could see as much in her eyes there would be a sense 

 of inertia about her, which indicated that she was only 

 waiting to " guess " by means of feeling a willing 

 receptacle, as it were, ready to receive my thoughts. 

 I have often made the attempt at " thinking " new 

 things into her head but have found this quite 

 impossible. 



Shortly after what has here been related, Lola 

 became a " slacker " in the matter of thinking, and kept 

 this up for days. As this pose made it impossible for 

 me to put a serious test, I had recourse for some time 

 to questions only, and moreover to questions 

 as to which I could not be sure of the answer, without 

 some trouble or calculation on my own part, for I felt 

 that I might otherwise have really lost my patience 

 with her unless I had kept on strenuously suggesting 

 the answer as, for instance : " the stove is green ! " 

 Nor did I feel that I could have entirely relied on the 

 inactivity of my subconsciousness, while thus intently 

 thinking. So I kept to such questions as " What will 

 be the day of the week on such and such a date ? " 



