Postscript.—Professor G. C. Ferrari has published an article on Lola inRivista de Psicologia, 1920, 1. His explanation corresponds in many points with my own.
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Footnotes
1Published by Friedrich Engelmann, Leipzig.
2Published by the committee through the agency of Professor Ziegler.
3Published by Emil Eisell, in Bonn.
4Frau 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" (Hat gestehlt bei des armen Grossvaters Grab das liebe Maiblümchen) (Had stolen from dear grandfather's grave the dear little lilies-of-the-valley!). The object shown him had been a lily-of-the-valley, and a few days before, Frau Moekel's mother had told the children that she had taken all the lilies-of-the-valley to their grandfather's grave. Rolf, therefore, seemed to have conceived the idea that the flowers shown him had been pilfered.—Ziegler.
5The hatred of dogs for cats is hereditary; it is an instinct common to all dogs, and, seeing that instinctive sensations do not owe their origin to any deliberate act of reasoning, it is generally difficult to account for them. It is therefore worth drawing attention to the fact that Rolf did, nevertheless, make an attempt at giving a reasonable reply.—Ziegler.
6Taken from the "Communications of The Society for Animal Psychology," 1916. pp. 6-9.
7These dogs were born on 26 and 27 January, 1914. Compare the letter of Rolf in the "Communications of the Society for Animal Psychology," 1914, p. 28; and "The Soul of the Animal," p. 111.
8Ilse was barely two months old when she came into the possession of her master, on 20 April, 1914.
9The dog had become familiar with square roots in the course of earlier attempts.
10Frau Dr. Moekel taught another young dog, called Lux, as well as Roland, the former being taken over by a gentleman in Mannheim. In a protocol dated 14 June, 1914, I stated that Lux was able to do a certain amount of arithmetic at the age of four and a half months.
11Professor Karl Kindermann, of Hohenheim.
12Gegs = keks; Germans call biscuits "keks."
13Here observe that Rolf has the impudence to complain of the Moekels for not feeding him on sweet biscuits!
14So as to avoid confusing her I always write thesoundonly.
15his the term used in Germany for the note we callb.
16Maulburg, near Schopfheim, in Baden, where Lola had visited relations of mine.
17Mittel = unbestimmt (uncertain; from Mitte = middle.)
18Fractions will be touched on in a later chapter on "Advanced Arithmetic."
19Chapter XVIII, "Spontaneous Answers."
20The poet, Hans Müller, has touched most eloquently on the power to think latent in animals in his book, "Die Kunst sich zu freuen."
21At a meeting held by the Rolf Society at Stuttgart, Professor Ziegler accounted for this accurate knowledge by declaring that—prior to birth—the puppies lie in a row within their mother's womb, and that if one moves, the others proceed to move also, but only one after the other.
22Sie = you is the more formal mode of address, as opposed to the familiar "du" = "thou."
23Lola often uses quite incomprehensible words and once declared that they belonged to "a particular dog-language"—my further inquiries have been quite fruitless, and these words were probably her own inventions!
24"Who are you?"
25See the Song of Solomon.
26I would here refer the reader to the references I made to the work issued by Pfungst; they may be found in "The Animal Soul" (Reports of new observations made with respect to horses and dogs), 2nd ed. (W. Jung) 1916, p. 38.
27Karl Krall, "Denkende Tiere, Beiträge zur Tierseelenkunde, auf Grund eigener Versuche," Leipzig, Engelmann, 1912.
28Rolf could only rap with one paw owing to the other fore-paw having been injured; he generally leaves out the vowels, these being already contained within the consonants. This habit gives rise to a somewhat curious form of writing.
29Note.—The numbers in the text refer to the Bibliography at the end.
30N.B.—It may also be that the "quite incomprehensible words" have not any meaning at all, or at least, not any relation with the mechanism of the glossolalia, but are simply the product of taps made by the animal just for the sake of doing something.