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Replaced. He rushes round right way before I have time to 

 put potato down. I give him some bread. 

 Replaced. No hesitation. 

 I now placed chain thus : 



Potato 



FIG 3. 



He starts wrong, but rapidly gets out between legs, perhaps by 

 chance, then goes round table and gets. 



Replaced. He untwists himself (though starting wrong) while 

 I am placing bread. Then comes round table and gets food. 



These experiments give a fair measure of his accuracy 

 in disentangling himself. 



Some more untwisting experiments followed, and then I placed 

 the chain round the high chair again. 



He tries a little at potato (/'.*., to reach it directly), but does not 

 attempt to go round chair. Jumps on it once. Very little 

 effort. After interval, tries again, wanders a little. The clank 

 of his chain seems to strike him, and he starts off, goes round 

 chair deliberately, and gets potato. 



Replaced. Tries (direct method), then back, and after one 

 false start, goes round at once. 



Replaced. Does not even try to go straight, but goes round 

 at once. 



In this experiment again, the thing seemed to strike 

 him all of a sudden. Just as in the hook experiment, the 



