Mother. "How do they make fire?"
L——. "Fire is brought to them."
Mother. "How is fire brought to them?"
L——. "Fire is brought to them upon a candle and put to them."
L——, a little while afterwards, asked leave to light a candle, and when a bit of paper was given to him for that purpose, said, "But, mother, may I take some light out of your fire to put to it?"
This boy had more exact ideas of property than Prometheus had.
Z——, when she was between five and six, said, "Water keeps things alive, and eating keeps alive children."
Z—— (same age) meddling with a fly, said, "she did not hurt it." "Were you ever a fly?" said her mother. "Not that I know of," answered the child.
Z——'s father sent her into a room where there were some knives and forks. "If you meddle with them," said he, "you may cut yourself."
Z——. "I won't cut myself."