the sentence. Although she
would not answer further, she presently began to say "Oh,
cut my head off--oh, where is my papa and mamma?" When told
that her people were in Germany and that she could go back
to them, she said "I haven't any money to pay it." Then she
wanted to know if she was to pay for her board and bed and
said she could not do it.

Again, on July 1, although she had been quite preoccupied,
inactive and silent, she began to say when greeted, "Oh,
please cut my head off." But she then answered some
questions, said she had not worked enough. On questioning,
she explained it was not that the work had been too much,
but that she had been nervous, had tried to work as much as
the servant next door, but could do only half as much, "Oh,
I ought to have worked."

Repeatedly on other occasions she begged, with distress, to
have her head cut off or to be killed. Frequently there
were statements of self-blame: she ought to have worked
more, was lazy or "I am not worthy"; or she said she had
lied and stolen; or again, "I have not paid for these beds
and I cannot," or "I am a bad girl."

3. For a month she presented a more marked reduction of
activity. She sat about with a dejected look, often gazed
in a preoccupied manner, or she stood or walked around
slowly. Sometimes she had to be spoon-fed. At other times
she ate slowly. Toward the latter part of this period, a
distinct tendency to catalepsy appeared. During this
period, too, as a rule (though not always), she would cry
when spoken to. A few times she would make some ineffectual
motions when questioned, but she scarcely ever spoke.

4. Then followed a period again lasting about one month in
which the picture was at times one of still greater
inactivity. She would retain uncomfortable positions, allow
flies to crawl over her face. She presented resistance in
the jaws, did not react to pin pricks. She sometimes sat
with eyes closed or, with an immobile face, the eyes stared
with little blinking. The catalepsy was more decided. She
often would not swallow solid food but swallowed fluid.
Again she held her saliva, sometimes drooled. Once she held
her urine and had to be catheterized. When spoken to she
once smiled at a joke,