FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46  
47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   >>   >|  
: "Hat Recht: Lol immer sagen Bauchweh!" ( = Quite right of him! Lol always says he has a pain in his stomach!) "After this I showed him another box of biscuits, with a picture of a little nigger-boy on the lid, and asked: "'What do you see on this?' "To which he eagerly replied: "'Wuest schwarz Bub!' ( = A wild black boy!) "Rolf then received his reward, and I took a grateful leave of the Moekels--accompanied by little Lola. "This experience of coming into personal contact with Rolf's powers of self-expression made a deep and lasting impression on me. In spite of all the accounts I had read and heard this living proof was almost overpowering in its utter novelty, and in the feeling of emotion that came over me, I seemed to sense that 'Souls' Unrest' that a transition from the old conception of 'unreasoning' animals to this new cognition is bound to bring with it. "My visit had been so short that I had not been able to put any questions as to the method of instruction pursued. I had not been able to experiment personally nor get any actual advice, for Frau Dr. Moekel had died in the autumn of 1915. Yet I was by no means displeased at my state of ignorance when I came to reflect on the matter, for it enabled me to 'blaze a trail,' as it were, according to my own way of thinking, perhaps even, enabling me to arrive accidentally at similar or, diametrically opposite results!" LOLA Lola is an Airedale terrier, born at Mannheim on 27 January, 1914, a daughter of Rolf, and of the equally thorough-bred Jela. Both these dogs were owned by the family of a barrister, Dr. Moekel. The Airedale terrier resembles the dog we call a "Schnauzer"; it is wire-haired and of medium growth; generally with a greyish-black coat and yellow feet. Its head is covered with silky curls beneath which two bright eyes are seen. These dogs are distinguished for their alert and attentive bearing, while their excellent constitution renders them specially suitable for being trained to useful pursuits; they are at the same time not an over-bred race. Professor Heck, writing on the subject of these dogs (see "Communications of the Society for Animal Psychology"), says: "We are indebted to Herr Gutbrod of Bradford for the fact that this dog has already become fairly well distributed among us. If I have been rightly informed regarding the Airedale's history it is a crossbreed between the otter-hound and the bull-terrier, this s
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46  
47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

terrier

 

Airedale

 

Moekel

 

generally

 

greyish

 

barrister

 

growth

 

Schnauzer

 

resembles

 

medium


haired
 

January

 

similar

 
accidentally
 

diametrically

 

opposite

 

arrive

 

enabling

 
thinking
 

results


equally

 

daughter

 
Mannheim
 

yellow

 

family

 
distinguished
 

Gutbrod

 

Bradford

 

indebted

 

subject


writing
 

Communications

 
Society
 
Psychology
 

Animal

 

fairly

 

crossbreed

 

history

 

informed

 

distributed


rightly
 

Professor

 

attentive

 

bright

 
covered
 

beneath

 

bearing

 

pursuits

 

trained

 
constitution