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mid-day on the aoth, and had only returned home in 

 the evening. I addressed her with evident displeasure 

 in my voice, saying : " Have you any excuse to make 

 for such behaviour ? " " Yes." " Then what is it ? " 

 " ich one er." (=1 am without honour). "But, 

 Lola 1 you are only making things worse if you are 

 naughty and go off like this after the game 1 " " zu 

 schwer zu leben I " (= too difficult to live 1). " Lola 1 

 how can honour be made good again ? " " wen ich 

 sterbe 1 " (= if I die 1) . . . and here the " romance " 

 ended (but not Lola's life !). After a few days she 

 got better and soon became as lively as ever the wild 

 and excitable creature she is by nature, whom none 

 would take to be the mother of four children and a 

 " learned dog " into the bargain ! The thing is 

 could the dog have caught up an impression from some 

 human mind something she had heard said in con- 

 versation, and which she had in some mysterious 

 way assimilated and applied to her own life ? I 

 cannot tell, but I almost feel as if this must have been 

 the case. There can be no doubt that animals have 

 a sense of honour, yet it would seem unlikely for it to 

 function in the manner above narrated. Yet how 

 much remains still unaccounted for within a dog's 

 soul how many attempts at unravelling will have to 

 be made before the right clues have been touched, 

 which shall lead us to our goal within this labyrinth. 

 There is so much which it is impossible to bring into 

 co-ordination with the human psyche, for though there 

 are many fundamental impulses, common to both man 

 and beast, we cannot approach the subject, nor yet 

 measure it according to our human standards, where 

 the psychology of a dog is in question. Another thing : 

 in educating these dogs specially reared for experi- 

 mental work we should be careful on no account to 



