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I December : " Lola, what will become of you when 

 you are dead ? what will become of your body ? " 

 " If . . ." " No ; that is no answer ! You are to 

 spell properly 1 " " Zu esen fur wurm " (= food for 

 worm.) " Aiid, Lola . . . your soul ? do you know 

 what that is ? " " Ja, nur get in himmel ! " (= yes 

 (it) only goes to heaven ! ) " Did you hear people 

 say that ? " " Yes ! " From this it would seem that 

 any seeking after the dog's own sensations on the sub- 

 ject are useless. By the way, some time before I had 

 read Rolf's remark to her : "All tier hat seel, guck in 

 aug " (= all animals have souls, look in their eyes). 

 And I then asked her : "Do you know what a soul 

 is ? " And she had said : " Yes." " Have I a soul ? " 

 " Yes ! " " Has a stone one ? " " No ! " " And 

 ahorse?" "Yes!" " A bird ? " "Yes!" "And 

 water ? " " No ! " " Have all dogs ? " " Yes ! " 

 Lola had rapped this all out very nicely, and I praised 

 her, to which she made response by a little spontaneous 

 rapping " isan ..." " What does that mean ? " 

 " ich o wi glucklich ! " (=1, oh how happy !) 

 " Because I am pleased.? " " Yes 1 yes ! " 



4 December : To-day I said to Lola : " Why don't 

 I understand dog-language ? " x " Oft eil " (= often 

 hurried.) " Yes, but even when I have tried, and paid 

 attention I cannot understand ! " "In hauch 

 zsuvzaes" (= the first two words are " in breath," 

 the remainder quite vague !) In a quarter of an 

 hour I showed her a card on which a small child and a 

 dog were looking at each other, and beneath in Latin 

 characters was written : " Wer bist du ? " * " Can 



1 Lola often uses quite incomprehensible words and once declared 

 that they belonged to " a particular dog-language " my further 

 inquiries have been quite fruitless, and these words were probably 

 her own inventions I 



2 " Who are you ? " 



