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3 May : In reply to my question as to what she 

 had had to eat at the peasant's house she said : 

 " milk." 



The next day I asked her " where is my friend living 

 now ? " to which she answered. " Hanhof." (N.B. 

 A name under which she includes the entire district). 

 " What is the colour of the woods now ? " And she 

 answered. " Green." Then " Why are you looking 

 at me so crossly ? " " We." " In your head ? " 

 " Yes." " What has given you a headache ? " 

 " Learning." 



8 May : Lola had been rolling herself about in some 

 frightfully smelly mess a thing she, like other dogs, 

 never loses an opportunity of doing. " Do you like 

 that smell ? " I asked. " Yes ! " " But don't you 

 know quite well that I do not like it ? ''' " Yes ! " 

 " Then why do you always do it again and again ? " 

 " I love it so ! " The same afternoon, after her musical 

 tests, the maid came into the room to lay the fire. 

 " What is Katchen doing at the stove ? " I asked. 

 " Fire," replied Lola. 



The next day : " Lola ! who do you like best of all 

 people and animals ? " " Ich !"(!). "If you mean 

 yourself you should say " mich " (myself), so she at 

 once rapped " mich ! " " And after yourself ? " 

 " Dich ! " (" thee," the familiar of you commonly 

 used in German). A frank remark, at all events, and 

 without the taint of human egoism ! 



10 May : Lola has been gnawing a bone : not know- 

 ing of what animal it was, I put the question to her 

 and she replied : " re " (reh = deer). The truth of 

 this being confirmed in the kitchen. I then asked : 

 " What bones do you like best deer, hares, wuzl " 

 (this is her own name for a pig), " or ox ? " Answer : 

 " Wuzl I " " Are you pleased that you know more 



