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sorts of action, such as shaking his hand & saying "ah" to any dirty dirty object, or by pushing the proper movement of slowly carefully & slowly patting patting his little finger in the middle of his the palm of his his other hand, to the childish rhyme of "pat it & pat it & mark it with T."

It was amusing to observe how behold his pleased him expression was after he successfully performing of any such accomplishment.

moral sense. (I do not know whether it is worth mentioning as showing something about the strength the power of memory in a young child, that this one when three 3 years & 23 days old or being shown seeing being shown an engraving of his grandfather, whom he had not seen for exactly 6 months, instantly recognised him & mentioned a whole string of things events which had occurred when visiting him, & which had certainly never been mentioned in the intervals.)

Moral sense. The first sign of this sense was noticed at the age of nearly 13 months: I said wont "Doddy (his nick-name) wont give poor papa a kiss,─ naughty Doddy." These words without doubt made him feel slightly uncomfortable; & at last when I had sat returned to my chair, he protruded his lips & shook his hand as a sign