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9. Had a pleasant face ; brown hair and eyes ; extremely ner- 
vous, laughing and weeping without cause. Always backward in 
school, but learned eventually to read and write. Was an adroit 
thief, cruel to children, crafty, disobedient, and self-willed ; would 
sacrifice anything and anybody to get his own way. No respecter 
of persons, would attack anyone. Absolutely insensitive to pain. 

First-born ; nourished by mother ; a sickly child, who suffered 
from hernia. During gestation the mother was much distressed by 
the death of her mother. Father, a day laborer, mentally below 
par, was drunk at time of conception. Father was 24 and mother 
22, at time of S.'s birth. Father used tobacco inordinately — smoked 
constantly — and was drunk fully 3 days out of 7. Both father and 
mother are extremely nervous and given to hysterical attacks. 
Paternal grandfather and maternal grandfather both died of phthisis,