[B9]

Mr S. Butler (a First year in Canterbury Settlement 1863 p. 157) says it is very important not to disturb the sheep during the lambing season; for a Ewe, if separated during the first few days from her lamb, the first time she produces & she is apt to leave them upon the slightest provocation will be apt same afterwards to dessert them. But after a ewe has once reared a lamb "she will be fond of the next & when old will face anything, even a dog, for the sake of her child."

This refers to the minors, who are not good mothers, no experience. They have told me that he has no sexual course with [husband], if mothers not caring for her first child, but caring much for her subsequent infants. So even maternal instinct seems sometime to  require practice in the individual

 

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[in margin:] C. D. 15