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that he was ready to kiss me; & he then shook his hand in an angry manner watch to make me come I came & received a his kiss. Nearly The same little scene recurred in a few days, & the reconciliation seemed to give him so much satisfaction, that the several times afterwards he pretended to be angry sock & slapped me, & then insisted on giving me a kiss. & being reconciles so as to be So that here there was we have a trickle of the dramatic art, which is so strongly pronounced in most young children. About this time it was becomes easy to work on his feelings & make him do whatever was wished. he gave his last bit of gingerbread to his little sister, & then cried out with high self-approbation "oh kind Doddy, kind Doddy." Three Two months later he became extremely sensitive to ridicule & was so suspicious that he often he thought people who were laughing & talking together were laughing at him. Again f months two a little later (2 years & 7 1/2 months old) I met him walking coming out of the dining room with so odd an expression his eyes unnaturally bright & an odd affected manner, so that I went into the room to see who was there, & found that he had been taking pounded sugar, which he has been told not to do. As he had never been in any way punished, b his odd manner was certainly not due