58 A METHOD OF MEASURING THE DEVELOPMENT 



At 15 years we require the correct repetition of a sentence 

 of 26 syllables. These are the sentences which we use : 



24 syllables : My little children, you must work very hard 

 for your living; you must go to school every morning. 



26 syllables : The other day I saw on the street a pretty 

 yellow dog. Little Maurice has stained his nice new apron. 



28 syllables : Ernest is frequently punished for his bad 

 conduct. I bought at the store a pretty doll for my little sister. 



30 syllables : There was a severe storm last night zvith much 

 lightning. My comrade caught cold and he now has a high 

 fever and coughs a great deal. 



32 syllables : The car is less expensive than the omnibus, it 

 costs but two cents. It is strange to see women acting as coach- 

 men in Paris. 



IV. Interprets a picture. — See above. 



V. Solves a problem from several facts. — Another prob- 

 lem, but one which requires good sense rather than insight. 

 We have drawn up two situations each of which presents a 

 problem. Here they are : 



1. A zvornan walking in the forest of Fontainebleau stopped 

 suddenly dreadfully frightened, hurried to the nearest policeman 

 and told him that she had just seen hanging to the limb of a tree 

 (after a pause) whatf 



2. My neighbor has just received some singular visitors. 

 He received one after the other a doctor, a lawyer and a priest. 

 What is going on at my neighbor' sf 



Both of these questions pique the curiosity of the subjects. 

 To the first some have replied: A bird, a snail, a bird nest 

 hunter, a robber, an apache, an assassin, a tree trunk, a branch, 

 a bunch of grass. 



The only correct response, implied by the context is : A 

 person who has been hanged. 



