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you read that ? " I asked. " Yes ! " So I put the 

 card aside and said : " What is the second word ? " 

 " Bist." " But do you understand the sentence ? " 

 " Yes." " Which is saying it the dog or the child ? 

 Look at both of them, they are young, and have met 

 for the first time in their lives." " Both ! " 



II December : " Lola ! why do you and Frechi 

 always bite one another when you are allowed to go 

 loose ? " " Ambitious ! " " Ambitious to see who is 

 the stronger ? " " Yes ! " " And which of you two 

 is the strongest ? " " Frechi ! " She had applied 

 the word with a nice sense of fitness : when two dogs 

 meet for the first time this is exactly the feeling that 

 arises either one of them is by far the strongest a fact 

 that both of them will be aware of, and silently acknow- 

 ledge or, their strength may be pretty evenly matched 

 in which case a fight will ensue, possibly even several 

 fights, before the issue is finally decided. Is this not 

 often spiritually the case between man and man ? 



13 December : Lola had been chasing after the game 

 and had been punished by having to go without her 

 food. She was however, in high spirits and rapped 

 " esen ! " following this hint in half an hour with 

 " zu esen 1 " (= (give me) to eat !) I explained to 

 her that this could not be done : that a punishment was 

 imperative, if she would not break herself of her evil 

 habits. Then Lola rapped out suddenly. " Lere mich 

 artig sein ! " (= teach me to be good ! ") 



22 December : I have been showing her a picture in 

 a book of Fairy Tales. My brother was present at 

 the time, and it was the picture of the house of a robber, 

 the house being drawn so as to represent a face : it 

 had indeed been very cleverly executed. 



" Lola," said I, " whatever is there about that 

 house do you notice anything ? " (And thought she 



