Translations:Victor of Aveyron/101/en

It will be scarcely credited, that five or six similar trials were sufficient not merely to teach him the way of arranging methodically the four letters lait, but also, I may say, to give him an idea of the relation that there was between this alphabetical arrangement, and one of his wants: that is to say, between the word and the thing. This, at least, I have a decision right to infer, from what occurred eight days after this first experiment. He was seen, just before his evening excursion to the observatory, to provide himself, of his own accord, with the four letters in question; to put them in his pocket, and immediately on his arrival at the house of Citizen Lemeri, where, as I said before, he went every day to take milk, to produce these letters on a table, in such a manner as to form the word lait.