only two words, that he now and then employed. Whatever had a human form, without any regard to sex or age, he called "boy," and every animal which he met with, quadruped or biped, a dog, a cat, a goose, or a fowl, was called by him "horse." If the animals were of a white colour, he expressed satisfaction; but those which were black inspired him with aversion. A black hen which came near him gave him much uneasiness, and he made the utmost exertions which his legs permitted to run away from her.

Many of his senses, as well as his intellectual faculties, appeared at first to lie in a state of torpor, and to awake only gradually to the perception of external objects. It was not till after some days, that he remarked the strokes of the clock in the tower, and the sound of the bells, when the fixed attention with which he listened, and the convulsions in his face, evinced his extreme astonishment, but his countenance soon changed into one of a musing and thoughtful expression. Some weeks afterwards, the music of a peasant's wedding passed under the windows of his room in the tower. He hearkened, and suddenly became motionless like a statue; his countenance seemed to be illumined, his eyes beamed with rapture, and were constantly

turned towards the sounds which were receding from him; and the last had already ceased, though he continued rivetted to the spot and listening, as if he wished to seize the last vibrations of the tones which appeared to him a celestial melody, or, as if his soul had followed them, and left in stupor the body which it inhabited. As he was once conducted to the parade, but certainly without the desire of ascertaining his taste for music, his nerves, which had already shown extreme sensibility, (14) were so much shaken by the first strokes of the drums near which he was placed, that he fell into convulsions, and it became immediately requisite to remove him.

Amongst the many other remarkable peculiarities which Kaspar exhibited in the first days and weeks, it was found that images of horses, and particularly wooden horses, were for him of no ordinary interest. The word "Horse" appeared to occupy by far the greatest space in his vocabulary, which consisted hardly of half a dozen words; and this word was employed by him on occasions, and for objects the most dissimilar, and not unfrequently amidst tears, in a plaintive tone of solicitation which seemed to express the ardent desire of possessing the object. As often as any trifle, a shining piece

of coin, a ribband, a little print, &c. was given to him, he exclaimed, "Horse! Horse!" and showed, by his looks and gestures, the wish of decorating a horse with it. Kaspar, who, without any benefit with respect either to his intellectual development, or to the observations which the singularity of his appearance required, was daily brought to the guard room of the police, where he usually passed in noise and confusion a great portion of the day, soon became domiciliated there, and acquired amongst its inhabitants friendship and attachment. The exclamation which he often re

peated there, "Horse! Horse!" suggested to a policeman who was principally occupied with this strange youth, the idea of bringing to the guard room a white wooden horse. Kaspar, who till then had appeared almost constantly insensible, or indifferent, without interest, or without animation, was at the sight of the wooden horse suddenly metamorphosed, and seemed to recognize in it an old friend which he had long missed. Without any noisy mirth, but with a smiling countenance, he sat down immediately on the floor near the horse, patting and caressing it, fixing unceasingly his eyes on it, and endeavouring to decorate it with the party coloured and shining trifles which he had received as presents. It was not till the

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horse was adorned with them, that it appeared to him to possess its full value. When the hour arrived in which he must leave the guard room, he attempted to lift the horse and to carry home with him, and he wept bitterly as he perceived that his arms and legs were too weak to bring it over the threshold of the door.* As often as he came afterwards to the guard room, he sat down upon the floor near the horse of which he was so fond, without regarding in the least the persons who were present. One of the police soldiers declared in his evidence, which some time afterwards was taken officially, that" Kaspar sat for hours together near the

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stove, and played with his horse, giving no "attention whatever to what passed around "him."

In the room which he inhabited in the tower, he was, however, soon provided, not merely with one, but with several horses; and as long as he remained there, they continued to be his constant playthings and companions, which he kept always in his sight, and by his side, and

* He was for a long time extremely weak in the arms as well as in the legs. It was only in September, 1828, when he had already begun to taste animal food, that his strength, through continued exercise, became such as enabled him, with both hands, to lift from the ground a weight of 25lbs.

with which he was perpetually occupied. He was watched through a concealed orifice in the door, and it was found that his days and hours resembled each other; that while sitting on the floor, and with his legs straightly extended, he still amused himself with the horses which were by his side, and in adorning them, sometimes in one mode, and sometimes in another, with ribbands, strings, and pieces of motley coloured paper; in hanging upon them coins, bells, and tinsel; and that, occasionally, he appeared to reflect deeply upon the various novelties which might be produced through an alteration in the position of their ornaments. Without changing his posture, or leaving his place, he rolled them backwards and forwards, but with caution, and very softly, in order, as he afterwards explained, that the wheels might not make a noise, and that he might not in consequence be chastised. He did not eat his bread till he had previously offered some to his horses; and before he drank any water, he dipped in it the mouths of his horses, which he afterwards wiped with great care. The mouth of one of those horses, which was of plaster of Paris, was softened by these immersions; and he could not conceive how this happened, as he perceived that the mouths of his other horses had also been moistened, without,