its brain, scanned the next cage which held a beautiful female Airedale.
Into her brain he sent another portion of his mind. Then into the next
dog another portion, and on and on until he had detached more than
three-quarters of his mind, and was controlling directly eight dogs.

His body felt weak and listless as it sagged on the bench, and he made
it lie down there in the semi-darkness. There was, he was afraid at the
time, little more than enough mind left in his body to keep the
semi-automatic functions going.

It was the most weird sensation imaginable, having portions of his mind
in nine places at once--having nine different and distinct viewpoints!

He found he could do, although not too well at first, nine different
things at once and the same time, or could make all the bodies he was
controlling do the same thing at the same time.

He "drilled" the dogs, making them line up, walk left or right or back
up, all in unison. He found that while his mind was divided and
controlling different bodies, there was a thread of connecting thought
between them all, so that he knew what each of the others was doing. Yet
it was not a central command--each individual mind-portion could and did
do its own deciding and commanding.

For hours Hanlon practiced with the dogs until he had worked out the
procedure to the point where he knew he could make them perform--singly,
as a group, or each doing a different thing--almost any task of which
their body muscles were capable, whether they had previously known how
to do it or not.

Bringing his mind-portions back from seven of the dogs into his own
brain, after commanding them to sleep, he went over to the cage of the
Airedale he was still controlling. Squatting down before the bars, he
took a pencil-stub and piece of paper from his pocket. These he passed
through the bars and laid at her feet.

Then, while he watched with his own mind through his own eyes, he used
only the portion of his mind that was inside her brain, and made the
Airedale pick up the pencil in her teeth, blunt end inside her mouth.
Holding it thus, she attempted to write on the paper, which she held
steady with her two front paws.

Anxious minutes passed while Hanlon sweatingly experimented. At last the
dog managed to print, very roughly and clumsily, a few letters. They
were large and very crude. It wasn't that he couldn't control her
muscles--it was, simply that the muscles were not built to do such
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