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his body and the cord l made as nearly as possible a straight 

 line. Thus he had not law enough to climb the table, 

 nor to reach to the top as he stood on the ground ; but 

 if he stood on the stool and stretched forward, he could 

 just reach it. I did not, to the best of my remembrance, 

 let him see me bring the box to the table for him, 

 but rather brought the table and adjusted it to the 

 box. After he had got it in this fashion, I moved 

 the box away. He did not try to move it back, but 

 began exploring the box, and threw it open. The lid, 

 being thrown back, came near to the table, and after a 

 little time spent in investigating the box and himself, he 



jumped on to the lid and got the food. When I put 

 another piece of bread on the table, he did not try to 

 repeat this performance, but tried to pull the table towards 

 him. He then jumped on to the box, and tried to open 

 it in a futile way while sitting on the lid. After a long 

 interval, I attracted his attention to the bread again, and 

 he once more opened the door of the box ; but this time 

 it opened at right angles to the direction required, and so 

 did not help him. He pushed the box a little towards 

 the table, but did not persist. After another trial, in 

 which he circumvented me, by extraordinary litheness of 

 body, he began pulling a- chair towards the table, but 

 found it too hard work, and gave up. I then noted as 

 follows : 



Pulls at box. Takes up brush and makes a vague lunge with 

 it, then takes rope, and similarly half tries to throw it. 



1 The cord was tied to a belt of sacking, which went round the nar- 

 rowest part of his body above the thighs. 



