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He darts at tied end, and tries to pull himself up by it ; does 

 move table in this way and gets nearer. Tries to grab at string 

 beyond knot. Tries wildly. Tries to catch it by throwing other 

 string over it, and nearly succeeds. Never attempts to come back 

 and walk round table, nor to move table out of way, nor to 

 use stick. Finally, being encouraged by extra hard pull at tied 

 string, manages to shift table and so reach. No mistake about his 

 going for string beyond knot. 



In the second trial, he used the stick ; in the third, he 

 gave up. I then picked him up, and took him round the 

 table to untwist him, but he was much frightened, and 

 presently got twisted again. I soon found that he was 

 really after the remainder of the potato, which had 

 been left carelessly in another part of the room. At 

 length, in the course of his wanderings, he got free 

 from the legs of the table. I quote the following from 

 my notes : 



He still does not think of going round table, but makes another 

 fainthearted attempt to reach the food directly. Presently wanders 

 round to fire, and then sees strings ; goes at string beyond knot, 

 and gets. 



I again put cord round table. He tries to reach ; then comes 

 slowly but steadily round table, and back to fire. Then goes and 

 gets. 



Food, etc., replaced. After once straining towards string, goes 

 round table, straight to string, and gets food. 



Replaced. Same ; but cord has got twisted round foot of table, 

 so he pulls at tied string, pulls table nearer, and gets food by 

 pulling string beyond knot. 



After lunch, replaced. After short pull, /.*., straining at his 

 cord, goes round at once. 



I now pass chain through legs of table. He goes back through 

 and round at once. 



It will be seen (i) that it did not occur to him to go 

 round the table at the first trial, but (2) that having once 

 done so in casual fashion with satisfactory results he 

 repeated the process. 



After this, I tried the more complicated untwisting 

 experiments to which I have referred. The next day, I 



