THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MOSES 97 



In his efforts to pronounce wie he always gave 

 the vowel element like German u " with the 

 umlaut , but the w " element was more like the 

 English than the German sound of that letter. 



Taking into consideration the fact that he was 

 only a little more than a year old, and was in train- 

 ing less than three months, his progress was all that 

 could have been desired, and vastly more than had 

 been hoped for. Had he lived until this time, it is 

 my belief that he would have mastered these and 

 other words of human speech to the satisfaction of 

 the most exacting linguist. If he had only learned 

 one word in a whole lifetime, he would have shown 

 at least that the race is capable of being improved 

 and elevated in some degree. 



Another experiment that I tried with him was one 

 that I had used before in testing the ability of a 

 monkey to distinguish forms. I cut a round hole in 

 one end of a board and a square hole in the other, 

 and made a block to fit into each one of them. The 

 blocks were then given to him to see if he could fit 

 them into the proper holes. After being shown a 

 few times how to do this, he fitted them in without 

 difficulty ; but when he was not rewarded for the 

 task by receiving a morsel of corned beef or a 

 sardine, he did not care to work for the fun alone. 



In colours he had but little choice, unless it was 

 something to eat, but he could distinguish them with 

 ease if the shades were pronounced. 



I had no means of testing his taste for music or 

 sense of musical sounds. 



