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8 when he came to the Training School, but small for his age, was 
still wearing dresses. Red hair and blue eyes. Talked slowly, but 
had good vocabulary. Absolutely undisciplined and difficult to man- 
age, his one cry was " I won't, I won't." Could be a delightful child, 
but more often was so naughty that he exhausted everyone's patience. 
Hot-tempered, defiant and obstinate, neither coaxing nor discipline 
had the slightest effect upon him. 

Passed rapidly through the kindergarten into the schools where 
he did well in geography, history, and language, in military and 
physical exercises and dancing. Learned to draw and to play on 
the cornet and piccolo ; was in fact one of our brightest boys, but his 
insolence and violence grew in proportion. A disturbing element in 
the schools, fertile in expedients for annoying both teachers 
and pupils, his vindictiveness was marked. For instance a boy 
who had inadvertently offended him had a picture he valued, and L. 
requesting to look at it, immediately tore it in pieces. Developed a 
fondness for animals and insects, especially for butterflies, but was 
intensely cruel to children. Everywhere troublesome, needing watch- 
ful supervision, he yet becarhe quite efficient in household service 
and also in the printing office. Left the Institution in his seventeenth 
year and found employment in a mill. While a good worker, he is 
constantly in trouble, a fomenter of mischief, and his countenance 
now betokens increased hardness and brutality. 

Third child ; born at 7 months ; nourished by mother. Father