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Identifier: studyofchild00hoga (find matches)
Title: A study of a child
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hogan, Louise Eleanor (Shimer), Mrs., 1855-1929. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Child study. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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for his books and to have theblind raised, and sat up to amuse himself, as he doesevery morning, if he wakes before it is time for him tobe dressed. This is when he does most of his cuttingand drawing, after having been fed. It is a regularhabit to place his material at the foot of his bed every.night, and in the morning we have a serious time of itpicking up papers and throwing out what he allows usto call trash. This morning, instead of cutting, he read A FroggieWould A-wooing Go. He knows every word of itfrom memory, turns the pages at the right time, andtakes great delight in using various tones and gesturesto illustrate each phase of the story. When he had fin-ished reading it and I said it was time to rise, hecalled to his father in another room, as he usually does,saying to me, Is that loud ? Receiving no reply, heshook his head, said He wont hear, and went on withhis play until the maid came to dress him. Shortlyafter his father had left for his regular train, rather more 140
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1893 DRAWINGS—ENGINES A, This is a man raking the fire, mamma ; B, round front to engine ; C, engine out atnight time—a, is the moon; D, envelope and stamp; E, pictures on the wall. FOURTH YEAR leisurely than usual, Harold heard one go by and said, Thats papas train; he didnt miss that one. I took him out to-day to buy a birthday present. Aswe walked along he told me he loved to go out, askedif he was going to the barber-shop, and when I said No, he said, Then where are we going ? I said, Tobuy a present. This delighted him. He is always soreasonable about buying things for himself that we takepleasure in giving him little surprises of this kind. Whenhe asks for anything beyond his limit, he is always per-fectly satisfied if we tell him that some day he will pos-sibly get it. He seems to enjoy the anticipation, andmany an hour have we spent looking at possiblefuture gifts, while he was incidentally learning to con-trol his desires. (Sometimes I am able to give an order,unknown to

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