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fuss, although the accident must have been somewhat a painful 

 one, nor did he try to pull the toe out, which would have been 

 useless and only hurt him more ; but he sat almost motionless, 

 making slight complaining noises until I discovered that there 

 was something wrong with him. When I began to extricate 

 his foot, he remained perfectly passive — although I dare say I 

 hurt him a good deal — and only looked at me gratefully. 



January 1,1881. He has now quite given up trying to loosen 

 his chain himself; having tried every way and failed, he has 

 evidently become hopeless about it. He now resents being 

 tied up. When I loosen him he is quite pleased, and when I 

 tie him he waits until he is quite sure he is being tied, and not 

 loosened, and then he flies at me and bites me. 



10th. As he is always tied up in the same place he has 

 no new opportunities given him of showing his intelligence. 

 His attachment to my mother has increased. When she goes 

 out he immediately gives up all play and mischief, and does 

 nothing but run round and round in a restless manner, making 

 a peculiar sweet calling noise, such as he never makes when 

 she is in the room, listening intently between times. As long 

 as she remains away he takes no rest or amusement, nor does 

 he ever, or hardly ever, become angry ; but the moment she 

 returns he begins all his old ways again, usually becoming 

 more savage at other people than before. 



My mother frequently takes things away from him, and he 

 never resents it to her as he would do to any other person. 

 He generally, however, chatters angrily at some one else when 

 my mother removes anything he wishes to keep. At first I 

 thought he was deceived in the matter — that he could not 

 believe it possible that his best friend could deprive him of 

 what he valued, and so thought someone else must have 

 done it. But the same thing has now happened so fre- 

 quently that I can hardly think he is not really aware of 

 who takes the things away. He seems rather to think it 

 politic to keep on good terms with one person, and that although 

 he does see her remove the things, and feels angry in con- 

 sequence, he thinks it more prudent to vent his anger upon 

 someone with whom he has already quarrelled. He always 

 shows more irritation when my mother gives anything to me after 

 having taken it away from him, than when she keeps it herself 

 (as mentioned on December 26), and this may be the reason 

 partly why he resents these matters to me ; he thinks when I 

 obtain possession of anything he wants that it is a sort of 

 triumph to me. In the same way my mother may laugh as- 



