alike. It was suggested (by
A----) that perhaps the hen was frightened by her head's being held
down to the ground, and that the chalk line and circle had nothing to
do with the business. The hen was carried out of sight of the magic
line and circle, her head was held down to the ground as before; and
when the person who had held her, gently withdrew his hand, she did
not move. She did not for some instants recover from her terror; or,
perhaps, the feeling of pressure seemed to her to remain upon her head
after the hand was withdrawn.

Children who are accustomed to _doubt_, and to try experiments, will
not be dupes to "Vulgar errours."

(July 20th, 1796.) S---- (between 9 and 10) when he heard a lady
propose to make use of a small glass tumbler to hold pomatum, made a
face expressive of great disgust; he was begged to give a reason for
his dislike. S---- said it appeared to him dirty and disagreeable to
put pomatum into a tumbler out of which we are used to drink wine or
water.

We have observed, (V. Chapter on Taste and Imagination) that children
may early be led to reflect upon the cause of their tastes.

(July 24th, 1796.) S---- observed, that "the lachrymal sack is like
Aboulcasem's cup, (in the Persian tales.) It is emptied and fills
again of itself; though it is emptied ever so often, it continues
full."

The power of reasoning had been more cultivated in S---- than the
taste for wit or allusion; yet it seems his mind was not defective in
that quickness of seizing resemblances which _may_ lead to wit. He was
not praised for the lachrymal sack, and Aboulcasem's cup. (V. Chapter
on Wit and Judgment.)

(August 3d, 1796.) C---- (11 years old) after she had heard a
description of a fire engine, said, "I want to read the description of
the fire engine over again, for whilst my father was describing one
particular part, I recollected something that I had heard before, and
_that_ took my attention quite away from what he was saying. Very
often when I am listening, something that is said puts me in mind of
something, and then I go on thinking of _that_, and I cannot hear what
is said any longer."

Preceptors should listen to the observations that their pupils make
upon their minds; this remark of C----suggested to us some ideas that
have been detailed in the "Chapter on Attention."

(August 1st, 1796.) S----, who had been translating some of Ovid's
Metamorphoses to his father, exclaimed, "I hate those ancient g