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entered Training School in sixth year. Brother to the foregoing 
and of the same mental capacity, he was like him very slow in com- 
prehending, but improvement was constant in school. Doing well 
in music and military drill, acquired an easy graceful carriage. De- 
veloped habits of neatness and order, promptness and accuracy. 
Had training in household service, in shoe-making and tailoring. Is 
now, at 24 years of age, earning a respectable living. But little is known of the family history of these two cases, except that the mother was erratic and peculiar, and that both boys 
were neglected in infancy and early childhood. Fortunate in a 
training, adapted to needs and free from excitement of competition 
and over-pressure, they escaped that deterioration leading inevitably