influence of a meeting with the girl whom he had begun to
love but to whom he had made no confession, went home and walked up
to his sister, put his arms about her neck and kissed her. The action
was so unusual as both to surprise the sister and to arouse her
intelligent suspicions. Goethe makes much use of this type of
emotional discharge in his "Elective Affinities," and Tennyson
alludes to it in the lines,

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others.

Such manifestations are not far removed from those that are shown to
pet animals and to persons of the same sex, reference to which has
previously been made.

Previous to the age of about nine the girl is more aggressive than
the boy in love affairs. At this age her modesty, coyness and native
love for being wooed, come to the surface and thereafter characterize
her attitude toward the opposite sex.

TYPICAL CASES.

Case 1. A boy of eight confessed through a girl's friends his
love for the girl. Then on the playground he did little favors
for her as though they were matters of course. If attention was
in any way called to his acts of kindness he would lightly
dismiss the affair with "Oh, that's nothin'," always showing
embarrassment at the fact that his favoritism had been observed.
In writing about it the girl says: "I liked him very much and
enjoyed being near him on the playground, but was very much
embarrassed when he spoke to me; so about all the pleasure that I
got out of this little romance was in watching him as he would
try to gain my attention and good-will while we were all at
play."

Case 2. In a case that continued from seven to thirteen the
writer says: "I wanted to stand by him in the game, but would
never make the effort to get the situation--although it always
came about. He sent me very pretty valentines, but was very
careful that I should not find out who sent them. When we met on
the street we would both blush, and a strange feeling would
possess me that I did not have on any other occasion. My bliss
was complete when I was walking down the street and he overtook
me--although we could say nothing to each other."

Case 3. B. 9, g. 11. Boy very much annoyed by the fact that the
girl was two years older. He thought that the husband ought
always to be older, and "looked