. A study of a child. t instead ofpapa ? October 5th.—I found out yesterday about his so-called April-fool letter to me — sent a short time agoby mail. He really gave it to the postman on Satur-day to have it delivered on Monday, and didnt tell mefor two days. It came in the usual mail, and he enjoyedmy surprise immensely. He addressed me as Dear Mrs. H , will you please send me a copy of your book at once? and signed it Yours truly, Dlorah.(Here he used his own name reversed, which puzzled me.) He is learning German in play. This evening, afterhis first lesson (given yesterday), he gave me a
. A study of a child. t instead ofpapa ? October 5th.—I found out yesterday about his so-called April-fool letter to me — sent a short time agoby mail. He really gave it to the postman on Satur-day to have it delivered on Monday, and didnt tell mefor two days. It came in the usual mail, and he enjoyedmy surprise immensely. He addressed me as Dear Mrs. H , will you please send me a copy of your book at once? and signed it Yours truly, Dlorah.(Here he used his own name reversed, which puzzled me.) He is learning German in play. This evening, afterhis first lesson (given yesterday), he gave me a lesson inplay. I encouraged it, to find out what he remembered,with the following result: He told me that No wasNein; Yes Yah; Boy Knabe ; Girl Madchen ; Bread Brod; A Em; I Ich; With Mit; andcounted in German up to fifteen. October 8th.—To-day he asked, What is meant todie a painful death ? I said, A wagon running overand killing you would be a painful death. He thensaid, And if they dagged a sword in you f 188. 1896 DRAWINGS—SIX YEARS OLD A, parts for a Brownie ; B, parts of the moon, as it grows ; C, effort at perspective ? D, copyof the block engine he often built ; E—a, cat from model ; b, This, he said, is how I usedto draw a pussy ; F, f, comparison drawings—F, Harolds ; f, copy by a playmate a year youngerthan Harold ; G, a gate ; H, two sides to a watch. SEVENTH YEAR He said to me to - day, when I told him that afterbeing dressed he might play in the room in which I wastrying to sleep, You tell God to keep me out of temp-tation (alluding to the Lords Prayer), but if youdress me and let me play in there while you want tosleep, it will tempt me to talk to you. October 11th.—When reading to Harold to-day he in-sisted on having the book about bones, muscles, andblood. I explained to him with a long tube how waterseeks its level, and he busied himself for a long timewith the tube and his pump (one that works satisfac-torily). He is very quick at contrivances,
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