He then asked what came after twenty-nine. I said he should use three, four, and five, and so on, in the same way as he had used two in twenty. He then began counting to ninety-nine, but saying three-ty and five-ty for thirty and fifty, until I corrected him. For a long I did and also his Slovenly Peter book. not trouble to look into what he was doing, for he seemed content; and when at the end of this time he came to me and said that Slovenly Peter had forty-four pages, I was very much surprised. thought he might have guessed it, so I turned to page 33 and asked him what page it was. He answered correctly at I I once. Then I looked into the matter fur- time after this he thought only of num- AN EARLY EFFORT. BCB KB FED FED EARLY CUTTINGS. plaining that after 99 came 100, 101, and so on the same way up. This satisfied him for a long time; but one day, when on the street, he noticed a house numbered 2105, and asked me what four numbers together meant. I then explained about a thou DEAR. MAMMA. A FAMILY PORTRAIT. دكروز AN ENGINE AND TENDER. sand coming after 999, and so on up to record had his questions answered acmillions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, cording to American counting. The etc., and about adding three more naughts record also shows how at six years of age to each one. These terms seemed to take he found out for himself that he could his fancy, and he often asked about their count to hundreds on the type-writer, by order; and one day using the figures 1 to 9, and the letter o. He took up printed letters in the same easy way that he worked out numbers, learning to read and spell. eventually, by the aid of memory and by comparison of the words he knew from memory with the printed words before him. His illustrated books of pigs, cats, dogs, etc., furnished him with sufficient material for this sort of work, and his interest was kept up by the illustrations, and sufficient admixture of out-door play to create a desire for in-door amusement. he had worked it out by threes, then he would have found twenty-four ciphersa million having six, a thousand millions nine, a billion twelve, a thousand billions His efforts at free-hand figure-drawing fifteen, a trillion eighteen, a thousand in his fifth year show steady improvetrillions twenty-one, a quadrillion twenty- ment, as may be seen from the series playmate of five, meant: "sali who said he did 91727374757677787980818283 va," "materials," 84852823223900 not know the parts of an engine, whereupon he drew the HOW MANY PENNIES HE NEEDED TO MAKE A DOLLAR. natural his tory," "boast," and indestructible." He cannot understand why some of his toy books are called "indestructible " when they can be destroyed. He often asks me about it. October, 1896.-He said to-night, when in bed, "I put my hands over my eyes, and I see the loveliest colors; and I say, col A B C D E F G H I J K J M U OPQ Until I eat a big ben. Dear colors, please come back; I'll never disturb you again, Until daydawn brings the light. You darling little colors gay, Make the prettiest ones you ever had." Then he fell asleep. To-night, when singing to himself, "Dies ist die Mutter lieb und gut," he sang it "Don't they know it's drinking-water?" in German first, then in English; then She said, "Yes." Then he said, "Why do they put the sign up?" His questions to-day were chiefly about words. He came to me at different times with the following, asking what each he tried to say the words without the music, and succeeded with the German, but when he got to the third line of the English words he had to sing it to get it; then he repeated it until he felt sure of in order that he may guess at them by the sound of the letters. To-night I gave him s-h-o-e, and told him oe was pronounced like oo in too, and to put the sound sh in front. He tried it several times before he got the word right, and was then very much pleased to find he could spell shoe. We then tried p-l-e-a-s-e in the same way, which at first he got as "place." In this way he is learning how to spell many words while he plays, and he now reads a number of short, easy sentences. He has a fashion now of spelling all the words he knows how to spell when telling us something, as, for instance, "M-a-m-m-a come t-o d-i-nn-e-r." Then she spells come for him, and he has one word 66 HIS PET BUTTERFLY. more. Sometimes I take up a word like "grew," for instance, give him the sounds, and ask him for the word. He first called grew "garew," then tried it faster, and eventually was delighted to find it was a word of which he knew the meaning. This knowledge he gains. very easily with play that he enjoys. To-night he asked me what " a-p-e-n spelled. I said it was no word; then he tried again, and said "a-p-r-n." a-p-r-n." I said again it was no word, although I knew what he was trying to spell. Then he said, impatiently, "Well, how do you spell apron?" Then I told him. He will take a word like old, or any simple word he knows, and beginning with the first letter of the alphabet, he will spell to himself and try to pronounce each combination, thus: a-o-l-d, bo-l-d, c-o-l-d, d-o-l-d, e-o-l-d, f-o-l-d, etc., all the way through to z. He tells me this is how he is learning all by himself how to spell new words. He often does this before falling asleep, and asks me some such question as whether e-o-l-d makes a word. October 8, 1896.-Today he asked, "What is meant to die a painful death?" I said, "A HIS DEVELOPMENT DURING HIS FIFTH YEAR IN wagon running over and killing him would be a painful death." He then said, "And if they dagged a sword in you?" He said to me to-day, when I told him that after being dressed he might play in the room in which I was trying to sleep, "You tell God to keep me out of temptation" (alluding to the Lord's prayer), "but if you dress me and let me play in there while you want to sleep, it will tempt me to talk to you." October 12.-He said to-day, "How would it feel if I had eyes in the back of my head?" I replied, "I do not know." Then he said, "Well, suppose I cut a rat in two pieces, and then cut one of the pieces in two, would that piece feel it?" To this query I replied, "No." He wondered why. I answered because it was separated from the head. Then he wondered why again. I told him that there were nerves going to the brain (his "think," as he calls it) telling when anything hurt. I told him also about the sensitiveness of the finger-tips. He experimented, then said, "Are there nerves in the nails, too?" I was not quite sure, but I said, "Yes." He looked at them, then said, "How can one see through the nails and not see any nerves?" I was forced to divert him then, and I must study up physiology. When walking along the street to-day, he said to me, "I suppose if we had no nerves, and we shut our eyes, we wouldn't know we are walking." October 17, 1896.-He evidently puzzles about two, too, and to. I just heard him saying to himself, as he is lying in bed trying to fall asleep, "I am going at two o'clock. Are you going to town? Yes, I am going, too," accenting each one. Then he said, "One, t-w-o" (spelling the words), "one t-o-o, and one t-o," turned over, and began whistling a tune he heard a band play to-day. Some time afterwards he asked me what a hard g and soft g meant. I explained. Then he asked for a hard a b and c, and I explained that not all letters had hard sounds and soft sounds; then I said cake and cent for him, to show the difference in the c's. He said: "How about knife? I should think n stood for knife." I said, "No; it is k; but it is a silent letter." He was satisfied with this, and asked next, "What is whiney or fretty-letting your voice drop down like |