"I "I 3 ^^^ mouse that never drinks 



Garden. There was no intention to have it grow, but it 

 showed what it is capable of. For seven years, without soil 

 or water, simply lying in the case, it put forth a few an- 

 ticipatory shoots and then, when no rainy season arrived, 

 dried up again, hoping for better luck next year. 



My specimen, transplanted to a situation somewhat like 

 its native one, has put forth its stems at the appropriate 

 time. Just how much it could endure I do not know. I 

 would be less reluctant to find out than I would be to feed 

 my Dipos an abnormal diet, deprive them of water and 

 bake them with heat until they frothed at the mouth, and 

 then note whether those given sea water would survive 

 while those which were denied even that died. But I would 

 be reluctant to push to its hmits even a vegetable. It is 

 enough for me to know without experimentation that the 

 vegetable psyche — if there is any such thing — is even 

 more patient, persistent and enduring than the animal. 



