A VARIETY OF ANSWERS 



IT was some time after Lola had mastered the 

 art of spelling before I was able to get her to 

 make independent replies. The first of these 

 was given on the 13 April, 1916, and from that time 

 onward they became easier and more frequent : most 

 of those I have set down date from that period. These 

 answers were at once noted, according to their 

 numerals, and when the sentence was complete it was 

 transposed into letters of the alphabet. Whenever 

 there were any spelling mistakes, the words were placed 

 before her, and she was told to name each successive 

 wrong letter in reading over her answer. As I knew 

 the equivalent letters, I was able to write them down 

 at once, and if the reply was a short one and no paper 

 at hand, I could memorize the letters, and enter them 

 in a book as soon as the lesson was over adding the 

 questions to which such answers had been given as well 

 as the dates. All other questions and answers, as well 

 as particulars relating to new exercises were also set 

 down here. 



Here is an answer I received from her on the 13 

 April, 1916 : Lola was staying with me at Hohenheim, 

 where we had arrived on the previous day, and I pro- 

 ceeded to Stuttgart in the morning. When I got home 

 in the evening I asked Lola : " Is it nice here ? have 

 you had good food at father's ? " to which the answer 

 quite wide of the mark was " wo wald ? " ( = 

 where is the wood ?) For I had been telling her 

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