ALTERATIONS IN CHARACTER 



A a result of all that has here been stated, the 

 question may very naturally arise : are there 

 any indications such as lead to suspect a change 

 of character, or do any other practical results follow on 

 these educational tests ? Now, Lola is by nature 

 lovable, lively, full of fun, and she has retained these 

 traits to the present day. Her great excitability has 

 diminished, it is true, but this is probably due to her 

 having grown more staid with years. Yet a difference 

 is also to be found where her character her dog-soul 

 is in question : it may be noticed in the suspicious way 

 in which she now regards people, as though she were 

 " drawing comparisons " between them and herself. 

 We have, in fact, fallen somewhat in her estimation. 

 She " asks " so to speak as to where our vaunted 

 superiority may lie, and would seem to compare her 

 newly-acquired knowledge together with the exist- 

 ence forced upon her with the life that is ours. 

 Since she has made these " educational advances " 

 one can often see in her eyes something that amounts 

 to an angry reproach something like an impatient 

 question, as to why we have so much food and freedom 

 as compared with what is meted out to her. She 

 follows our thoughts to a great extent, and our abilities 

 no longer seem to impress her, since to her it is 

 only those which she herself has mastered that come 



