vating and developing his mind. To relate all the innumerable proofs of this which are contained in various phenomena that I have observed in Hauser's conduct, would extend my narration to too great a length. During the first days of his abode with me, his conduct was precisely that of a little child, and displayed in every respect nothing but nature and innocence. On the fourth or fifth day, he was removed from the upper and more closely confined part of the tower prison to the lower story, in which I lived with my family, and he was lodged in a small chamber, which was so arranged, that I could constantly observe his movements, without his being able to perceive it. Here I have, in obedience to the orders given me by the burghermaster, frequently noticed his conduct when he was alone; and I have always found it to be perfectly uniform. He amused himself, when alone, with his playthings, in the same natural and unaffected manner as when he was in my presence. For, in the beginning, when he was once fully occupied with his playthings, it was of no consequence whatsoever what else occurred around him;

for he took not the slightest notice of it. I must however remark, that the pleasure which he thus took in childish playthings, did not continue very long. When once his mind had been directed to more serious and more useful occupations, and had become accustomed to them, he no longer took delight in playing. His whole demeanor was, so to speak, a perfect mirror of childlike innocence. There was nothing deceitful in him; his expressions exactly corresponded with the dictates of his heart, that is, as far as the poverty of his language would admit of it. When once my wife and myself undressed him, in order to cleanse his body, he gave full proof of his innocence and ignorance; his conduct, on that occasion, was precisely that of a child; quite natural and unembarrassed.*

*Not long afterwards, however, a feeling of modesty was awakened in him; and he then became as bashful as the most chaste and delicate maiden. An exposure of his person he now regards with horror. After the wild Brazilian girl Isabella, whom Messrs Spix and Martins had brought to Munchen, had lived for some time among civilized people and worn clothes, it was not without much trouble, nor yet without threats and blows, that she could be brought to undress herself that her shape might be drawn by an artist.

After he had got his playthings, and after other persons had been admitted to him, I sometimes permitted my son Julius, who is eleven years old, to go to see him. He as it were taught him to speak, showed him. how to form his letters, and communicated to him such conceptions as he himself possessed. I also sometimes permitted my daughter Margaret, a little girl of three years old, to go into his room. He at first, took great delight in playing with her, and she taught him to string glass beads. This amusement ceased to give him satisfaction, as soon as he began to grow tired of inanimate playthings. During the latter part of his abode with me, he derived his greatest pleasure and amusement from drawings and copperplates, which he stuck to the walls of his chamber."

CHAPTER IV.

In a very few days after his first arrival, Caspar was no longer considered in the tower as a prisoner, but as a forsaken and neglected child, who needed to be cared for and educated. The prison keeper admitted him to his family table, where, although he would not partake of any food, yet he learned to sit in a proper manner, to use his hands as a human being and to become acquainted with and to imitate many of the customs of civilized life. Most willingly did he play with the children of the keeper; who, on their part, were by no means disinclined to amuse themselves with this good-natured youth, whose excessive ignorance was diverting, even to children. But particularly Julius, who was eleven years old, became greatly attached to Caspar, and felt his incipient vanity not a little flattered by the occupation of teaching

this robust youth, around whose chin the first rudiments of a beard had already begun to sprout how to speak. Curiosity soon brought, every day and even every hour, multitudes of people around him, of whom few were willing to content themselves with merely gazing at the tame savage. Most of them found some means of busying themselves with him in one way or another. Some indeed, regarded him only as an object of amusement, or of experiments by no means scientifical. Yet, there were many who conversed with him rationally, and who endeavored to awaken his mind to a communication of ideas. One pronounced words and phrases which he made him repeat, another strove by signs and gestures to make unknown things known, and unintelligible things intelligible to him. Everything, even every plaything, by the gift of which the kind inhabitants of Nuremberg expressed their good will and attention to the poor youth, supplied him with new materials of thought, and tended to increase the wealth of his mind, with the acquisition of new conceptions and with the knowledge of significant sounds. Yet the