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17 December. To-day Lola ran away, returning 

 at length as depressed as^ever and bleeding. After 

 I had bathed the wounds on her neck and ears I was 

 glad to find that they were after all, no more than deep 

 scratches. " How olid this happen ? " I asked. " ich 

 one er." " How did it happen ? did you run against 

 a tree ? " " Dog." " What dog ? " " az . . ." 

 " Tell me properly 1 " " kuhno." (Kuhno was a 

 fox-terrier in a building near by.) " And were people 

 present ? " " Yes." " Who ? " " wilhelm." (And 

 this, as I later ascertained, was the case.) 



18 December : Lola looked as if she had been 

 crying, so again I said : " What is the matter, Lola ? " 

 " No." " Lola 1 do tell me ? " " zu rechnen " 

 ( her mode of expression when making evasive 

 remarks). "No, Lola! tell me why you have been 

 crying ? " " zu sagen swer " (= schwer : difficult 

 to tell). " No 1 tell me and I will help you ! " I 

 urged (I had incidentally drawn her attention to 

 the above mistake the " s " instead of the " sen "). 

 " Why difficult ? " " wegen er." After a pause I 

 asked again : " Why are you getting so thin, Lola ? " 

 (for she had lost flesh considerably during the last 

 three days). " ich so wenig er." " Wenig essen ? " 

 ( you have eaten little ?) I suggested " no " 

 " Say the last word again. " " er 1 " She kept harp- 

 ing on the same word Ehre = honour : there could 

 be no further doubt about this, for the missing " h " 

 was of no importance since I had taught her to spell 

 all words according to their sound only as there 

 would have been no object in teaching her our ortho- 

 graphy, embodying, as it does, so much that is cumber- 

 some and superfluous. 



21 December : Lola^was^still in^the same broken 

 condition : she had been off after the game since about 



