little favors. They have been very jealous of one another during
all of their life. They are now twenty and soon will be married.

Case 6. I know a couple who were married at the age of nineteen
whose love began when they were children. Their parents were
neighbors, and the children grew up together. During their
childhood their love was not interfered with by the parents, but
when they arrived at adolescence and began to go to parties
together the parents of both objected. The most severe measures
of the parents of both failed to prevent their marriage.

Cases with disparity in the ages of the lovers.

Case 1. A little boy of four began to show the most devoted love
for a young lady. Even when she was absent the mention of her
name would cause an expression of almost worship to pass over his
little face. She gave him her picture, and every night he said
his prayers to it and kissed it good-night. There was no cloud in
his sky until one day he heard two members of the family
discussing the arrival of a young man who was interested in the
young lady. No notice was taken of the little one, and when
dinner time came he was missing. He was found in the
carriage-house--a little bundle of indignation--getting ready to
drive down town. In the carriage he had put his father's
shot-gun, and he vowed vengeance on the young man who was
"stealing away" his "darling," as he called her. It took some
time to pacify him, and he was only satisfied when the young lady
herself appeared on the scene and promised him she would not
marry the young man. That was nearly three years ago, and he is
still as devoted a little lover as he was then.

Case 2. A little girl of five showed great affection for a boy of
twenty-one. She used to climb upon his lap and caress him, and he
never forgot to have some little delicacy for her in his pockets.
This little girl had a pet kitten which her parents did not wish
her to play with, and so her brothers coaxed the young man to
kill it, thinking that she would think anything which he did all
right. But the child's conduct towards him changed, and she
didn't care for him as before. She is now nineteen years old, but
whenever she sees him she thinks:--"He killed my pet."

Case 3. I knew of a little girl not more than four years of age
who became warmly attached t