This series also has to do with drawings made by Mr. Sinclair’s
secretary.
1. _Agent’s_ drawing, a diamond or rhombus (Fig. 32); _Percipient’s_
drawing, the two halves of a rhombus, “wandering about,” as Mr. Sinclair
says (Fig. 32a); if connected they would make a rhombus closely similar
to the original.
2. _Agt._, a script capital Y; _Per._, a print capital Y. (Figs. 33 and
33a.)
3. The _Agent’s_ drawing, a bottle of milk with “certified” written on
it, was suggested by his knowledge that Mrs. Sinclair to a considerable
extent lives on milk and is particular about its quality; _Per._, an
ellipse much like the top of the bottle, a straight line depending
therefrom, and the script “Round white foamy stuff on top like soapsuds
or froth.” And foam is characteristic of her milk, as she drinks it sour
and whipped (Figs. 34 and 34a). Here the percipient failed to get much
as to shape, but got considerable in the way of associated ideas.
4. _Agt._, an oil derrick (Fig. 35); _Per._, got what will be seen in
Figure 35a. There are long lines diverging like the long lines of the
oil derrick, but at a slant, and with a 5 or perhaps a 9 at the top
which has no counterpart in the original. This is not a very
satisfactory reproduction, but the general shape and long downward lines
are suggestive.
5. _Agt._, something like a poplar leaf; _Per._, three scrawls like
letters or parts of letters. A failure.
6. _Agt._, three small ellipses attached to a stem; _Per._, script “See
what looks like spider’s web,” but drawing shows a bunch of elliptic
figures.
7. _Agt._, apparently an apple with stem; _Per._, (1) what looks like a
tall script V, (2) the same less tall, (3) one so low and broad that it
is nearly equivalent to the top of the apple minus the stem.
8. _Agt._, a house from whose chimney proceeds smoke represented by a
spiral line (Fig. 36). _Per._, (1) a double spiral cut by a straight
line, same slant as in the original, (2) single spiral of nearly the
same slant, (3) what looks like a battlement, the crenels or openings of
which are like the windows of the house minus the upper sides (Fig.
36a). The rectangular openings are three in number, the rectangular
openings in the house (two windows and a door) are also there.
9. _Agt._, an open fan (Fig. 102); _Per._, a drawing represented by
Figure 102a, accompanied by the script, “Inside seems irregular, as if
cloth draped or crumpled.” Two words, “cloth,” and “draped,” suggest
what takes place as one begins to shut a fan, though the drawing is an
incorrect representation.
10. _Agt._, the figures 13 (Fig. 103); _Per._, (1) what would be a 3 but
for a supernumerary curve, (2) a 3 (Fig. 103a).
11. _Agt._, a conventional heart (Fig. 105); _Per._, practically the
upper part of such a heart, with three spots which may or may not
represent blood-drops, according to Mr. Sinclair’s conjecture (Fig.
105a). We can hardly contend, as an evidential point, that this is the
meaning of the round spots. Some obscure subconscious recollection of
expressions like “My heart bleeds,” expressing suffering, may have come
out in the drawing, though in that case one wonders why the whole heart
was not drawn. But it may be that the three marks proceeding in the
direction of the right side of the original came from a feeling that
_something_ should line in that direction.
12. _Agt._, a broom (Fig. 104); _Per._, several attempts all more or
less resembling the original (Figs. 104a, 104b), and a valuable script:
“All I’m sure of is a straight line with something curved at the end of
it [and this description, _all that she was sure of_, is so far
correct]; once it came [here see the drawing at the left]—then it
doubled, or reappeared, I don’t know which [referring to the upper right
drawing] (am not sure of the curly edges) [and she was justified in her
doubt. Probably the curly edges resulted from the intermingling of her
surmise that the curved something at the end of a line might be a
flower]. Then it was upside down.”