8 May: Lola had been rolling herself about in some frightfully smelly mess--a thing she, like other dogs, never loses an opportunity of doing. "Do you _like_ that smell?" I asked. "Yes!" "But don't you know quite well that I do _not_ like it?" "Yes!" "Then why do you always do it again and again?" "I love it so!" The same afternoon, after her musical tests, the maid came into the room to lay the fire. "What is Kaetchen doing at the stove?" I asked. "Fire," replied Lola. The next day: "Lola! who do you like best of all people and animals?" "Ich!" (1). "If you mean _yourself_ you should say "mich" (myself)", so she at once rapped "mich!" "And after yourself?" "Dich!" ("thee," the familiar of you commonly used in German). A frank remark, at all events, and without the taint of human egoism! 10 May: Lola has been gnawing a bone: not knowing of what animal it was, I put the question to her and she replied: "re" (reh = deer). The truth of this being confirmed in the kitchen. I then asked: "What bones do you like best--deer, hares, wuzl" (this is her own name for a pig), "or ox?" Answer: "Wuzl!" "Are you pleased that you know more than other dogs?" "No." And then--as though after due reflection--"no!" (_Emphatically._) 11 May: I showed Lola a biscuit, shaped rather imperfectly in the form of a fish, saying: "What is this--an animal that swims in the water?" Reply: "Fish!" In this case I do not think she had really recognized it, but had named the only animal she knew of connected with water, which--after all--was rather clever of her! 12 May: "Lola!" I asked, "would you like to be a human being?" "No." "Why not?" I asked--showing her a biscuit. She (promptly): "I eat!" "No! not till you have answered!" "Because of work!" A little later I said: "Do you belong to me Lola?" Very energetically--"No!" "To whom do you belong then?" "To myself." "And to whom do I belong? do I belong to you?" "No!" "Whose Henny am I?" "Your own!" These amusing answers bear the very impress of the animal's sense of independence: she is loth to be considered a "chattel," like some chair or table! 17 May: In the presence of my friend and of two dogs I asked her--"Lola, why don't you like Dick?" (Dick being one of the dogs present.) "Too wild!" was Lola's comment. "What do you like best to eat?" "Ich ese wi so mag!" "Is that quite correct?" "No." "Which word should be different?" "4!" "Then what should it be?" "Ich." "So it is to be: ich esse wie ich mag?" "Ja!" ( = I eat as (or what) I choose.)