Animals-Domestic
Lola
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Animals-Domestic
Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
On the third day after my first explanations I said to Lola in the course of the morning: "Tell me what time it is. I daresay you know without seeing the clock!" To which she an...
4. Chapter 4This gave me confidence, and that day we did additions up to twenty, all of which were successful. Indeed, the dog showed much interest in her work, and came to it readily. As a...
9. Chapter 9As a result of all that has here been stated, the question may very naturally arise: are there any indications such as lead to suspect a change of character, or do any other pra...
8. Chapter 8In my Protocol of 14 December, I have the following entry: Yesterday I asked Lola to tell me why dogs prefer being with human beings rather than with other dogs--and I asked her...
7. Chapter 7Towards the end of May I thought I would teach her fractions, and she apparently understood what I meant, but for a beginning I could only put questions, such as: "How many _who...
2. Chapter 2[4] Frau Dr. Moekel told me that she again asked the dog on the following day what the article shown him had been and he answered: "hd sdld bei arm grosfadr grab lib maibliml" (...
10. Chapter 10"Lola," I said, "do you know what is meant when I say--_je veux manger_--do you understand that?" "Yes!" "Then tell me!" "Ich wil esen!" "But do you understand this: _il faut qu...
3. Chapter 3"Rolf was brought into a room where there was no one beyond the family and myself. Rolf ran eagerly from one to the other and jumped up at me. Holding up a little packet of bisc...
12. Chapter 12Without possessing much intrinsic probative value of its own, it is certain that all this fits in very badly with the supposition of a purely mechanical automatism operated by t...
11. Chapter 11It was Karl Krall who took up and continued the work, improving on the original method and finally making known the most astounding results which he himself had succeeded in obt...
6. Chapter 6"Whose book is this?" She answered--"Father!" Then I showed her a glove and she told me it was mine. On 20 April, I showed her another glove belonging to a lady who was commonly...
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13. Chapter 13Besides, we find in Lola's case a high degree of glossolalia. The authoress observes, e.g. on page 39: "Lola often uses words completely incomprehensible; at one time she declar...