as to the
words themselves, most infantile phrases were used, certainly such
as no adult would have suggested. Was it suggestion then from one
unconscious to another? But this is to fall back upon a supposition
of the "mediumistic" type, and takes no count of the cases of
replies to questions which were unknown to everybody present, and
brings us to the single dilemma: either there is intelligence in
the human sense in the animal, or a relationship of the mediumistic
type above described between the several minds concerned.

As to the interesting observations reported by Ferrari and Pulle,
it seems to me opportune to quote here some extracts from the first
of these distinguished authors.

"This seance was particularly interesting, because I find it
recorded in my notes that a fact was verified three times
consecutively, which had occurred sporadically more than once
before, and had been observed and noted by us and various other
witnesses.

"It consisted in this: While I was putting in the box the number of
balls which I had intended the horse to read, the horse, which
often could not even have seen the number of balls, because I
covered them partly with my head and hands, tapped out the correct
number.

"The same thing happened when I took in one hand a card, the signs
on which it could only have read with difficulty, the light being
rather bad. The most curious thing about it was that the taps were
then made upon the whole more rapidly and less strongly than usual;
and that several times later on the horse gave the same number
itself with some little difficulty.

"It is also curious that it should have repeated the performance,
seeing that it was only once rewarded for it, and that, because it
was agreed that it had done its reading well. I must add that the
person who assisted me told me that generally, even when it was
giving correctly the number decided on, it hardly looked to see how
I was placing the balls in the box....

"Once when I was arranging three balls, because some one standing
behind the horse had made me the sign 3, the horse tapped its three
beats behind my shoulders while stretching out its neck by my side
in order to try to take a salad leaf, thus showing that it was
taking very little interest in the sign which I held out to it and
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