l6o MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



curiosity is excited about as early as his hunger. 

 He immediately begins to put out his moral 

 feelers into the unknown and the infinite to 

 discover what sort of an existence this is into 

 which he has come. His imagination is quite 

 as hungry as his stomach. And again and 

 again it is stronger than his other appetites. 

 You can easily engage his imagination in a 

 story which will make him forget his dinner. 

 He is credulous and superstitious, and open to 

 all wonder. In this, he is exactly like the sav- 

 age races. Both gorge themselves on the mar- 

 vellous ; and all the unknown is marvellous to 

 them. I know the general impression is that 

 children must be governed through their stom- 

 achs. I think they can be controlled quite as 

 well through their curiosity ; that being the 

 more craving and imperious of the two. I 

 have seen children follow about a person who 

 told them stories, and interested them with his 



