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prove important trivial and uncertain though each 

 one may be, when regarded by itself. It would be 

 difficult to know how to convey these to anyone in 

 words : glances, movements, a certain " live appeal " 

 it would require a poet to catch and fix in short 

 to idealize telling us the true inwardness, so that we 

 might indeed comprehend . . . and even then he 

 would, I fear, make for weariness, when grappling with 

 what well may seem interminable. 1 Here are a few 

 examples : 



16 May, 1916 : Lola was doing arithmetic and I had 

 given her some new sums. Suddenly, instead of cal- 

 culating, she gives " not reckon." I asked her the 

 date, she replied " 16 " adding of herself " too little 

 to eat." In the course of the afternoon, Lola, who had 

 gone with me to tea at B. L.'s, was shown some pic- 

 tures : " What is that ? " she was asked, "re," 

 (ein Reh = a deer) " segen haus, ich wenig nur 

 arbeite." " Will you do more here ? " "yes." 

 " Arithmetic ? " " Yes, yes 1 " (very joyfully) and 

 excellent replies followed. 



3 January, 1916 : On this date I began teaching 

 her the capital letters of the Latin alphabet ; A = a, 

 B = b, and so on, when she suddenly " butted in " 

 with " go out." As she had worked very well up to 

 that moment I opened the door and let her out. But in 

 five minutes she was back, looking anything but 

 pleased ; " Well, didn't you like it ? " I asked ; " no ! " 

 " Why ? " " come too I " I venture to think that 

 I have here given good proof in the matter of " spon- 

 taneous " utterances, the best, perhaps, being the one 

 given at B. L.'s, where she complained of having done 



1 The r poet, Hans Muller, has touched most eloquently on the 

 power to think latent in animals in his book, " Die Kunst sich zu 

 freuen." 



