Industrie, Patience, Intelligence - birds trained by Emilie Vandermeersch, 1850. 'This young applied herself from an early age to the training of exercises over them an extraordinary power, inducing them to perform feats of a wholly different kind from those which have been done by trained animals before. to be, acts of , after the most careful and minute observation, we have been unable to arrive at even a guess as to the manner in which Mdlle. Emilie Vandermeersch communicates with the birds tell the day of the week, month,
Industrie, Patience, Intelligence - birds trained by Emilie Vandermeersch, 1850. 'This young applied herself from an early age to the training of exercises over them an extraordinary power, inducing them to perform feats of a wholly different kind from those which have been done by trained animals before. to be, acts of , after the most careful and minute observation, we have been unable to arrive at even a guess as to the manner in which Mdlle. Emilie Vandermeersch communicates with the birds tell the day of the week, month, or year; the seasons; the time by any one's watch; or they will spell any word indicated, provided it do not contain any one letter twice Emilie Vandermeersch more than 17 or 18 years of age - a fact which makes her power over these birds the more remarkable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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