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when she was allowed to do so. It was no trouble 

 for her to connect the immediate effect to the 

 immediate cause. But she could not for a long 

 time understand that the position of the bottle or 

 the location of the milk in it had anything to do 

 with the trick. In the course of time, however, 

 she learned to hold the bottle so that she could 

 drink the milk ; and she also discovered that it 

 had to be held in a certain position in order to 

 play her amusing trick. 



Another instance was in the case of a little 

 monkey heretofore described by the name of 

 Jennie. When you would throw a nut just out 

 of her reach, she would take a stick which had 

 a nail in the end and rake the nut to her. She 

 never took the wrong end of the stick, and never 

 placed the nail on the wrong side of the nut. 

 Her master assured me that she had not been 

 taught this, but had found the stick and applied 

 it to this use. When she would not want any 

 one to play with her or handle her, she would 

 coil her chain up and sit down on it to keep any 

 one from taking hold of it. 



It is not an uncommon thing for monkeys to 

 discover the means by which their cage is kept 

 fastened, and they have frequently been known 



