[297]. Cf. above, p. 148 ff.
[298]. The supposition that ‘Ningi’ was easy seems reasonable. First of all it is in part a reduplication like his later name ‘Kikkie’. Again, we know that children often add the final y or ie sound, as in saying ‘dinnie’ for dinner, ‘beddie’ for bread. Once more, from the early appearances of ‘ng’ sound in ‘ang,’ ‘ung,’ etc., we may infer it to be easy. Indeed, one observer (Dr. Champneys) tells us that an infant’s cry is exactly represented by the sound ‘ngä’ as pronounced in Germany (Mind, vi., p. 105).
[299]. See above, p. 157 f.
[300]. It has been found that the sensations of hot and cold are readily confused even by adults.
[301]. I think this supposition more probable than that the child saw the whole form—hull, masts and sails—as a triangle.
[302]. He had been at the sea-side a year before this, but there was no evidence of his having remembered it.
[303]. Compare above, p. [162].
[304]. I find that another little boy when two years old used ‘two’ in this way for more than one.
[305]. Compare above, p. [171] f.
[306]. See above, p. 173.