286 MIND IN EVOLUTION CHAP. 



I put a lighter chair within his reach. He tumbles it over 

 box, and finally down by table it lies lengthwise. He then 

 climbs on it and tries to reach biscuit, but his rope has got 

 twisted, and is too short. I lengthen it, and push table nearer. 

 He gets biscuit. 



I now put chair in another place, upright again. He climbs 

 about it, but instead of using it, pulls table near him. Ultimately 

 gets food by reaching from chair. 



Food replaced. Fairly pulls box to within reach of table gets 

 on to it and reaches food. Replaced. Tries to reach from chair 

 as it stands, and to pull table. Gets on to chair through back, so 

 that rope is passed through, and will get twisted unless he goes 

 back. I show him a bigger piece. He jumps down through 

 back of chair, goes to box, opens it, and pulls it a little way to- 

 wards table, then jumps on top and gives up again. Finally, 

 through my moving biscuit a little nearer to encourage him he 

 gets it. I now place it on top of high chair. He tries to climb 

 chair, but fails. He catches curtain, and swings by it to chair, 

 and gets biscuit. 



After lunch, I place potato in basket hung from ceiling. He 

 gets it by jumping, and reaching from screen which he climbs up 

 and along. At length, other things being made impossible, I put 

 chair near. He pulls at this, and finally turns it over so that it 

 falls underneath. He then climbs on it and gets potato. 



Replaced. He does not try to use chair, but after some efforts 

 by other means, drags box underneath, jumps on it, and gets 

 part. As I write above, he tried to draw box towards table 

 where bulk of potato is left. It is too far. He also tries to throw 

 rope. Finally I move table a little nearer, and he gets potato, 

 standing on box. Replaced, and box put out of way. He lugs it 

 up. Pushes it too far. Then brings it back, opens lid. Stands on 

 it, and tries to reach. I push table nearer him, and he gets potato. 



I now put box so that by opening lid and throwing it back he 

 can reach. He gets on top, and so prevents himself from opening 

 until he gets near hinge. He then opens, tumbling right over. 

 He climbs on lid to reach, but the whole thing overbalances. 

 The same evening he pushed the box towards the table, but 

 rolled it over too far. Tries to reach and fails. Sits on box and 

 opens lid (at side) quite uselessly. Apparently tries to get it to 

 stand out at right angles. 1 No further effort though I draw table 

 a little nearer. On my going out of door, reaches food from 

 corner of box. 



1 I mention this as suggesting that he had a confused remembrance of 

 getting the food before by opening the lid, which he now applies quite 

 absurdly. He seemed to try to make the lid stick out at right angles, as 

 it does when thrown back from the top. 



