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speak of a thing gives a sort of possession of itj in a way that 

 we can scarcely realize. Perhaps this state of mind was hardly 

 ever so clearly brought into view as in a story told by Dr. 

 Lieber. " I was looking lately at a negro who was occupied 

 in feeding young mocking-birds by the hand. 'Would they 

 eat worms V I asked. The negro replied, ' Surely not, they 

 are too young, they would not know what to call them.^ "^ 



' Lieber, ' Laura Bridgman ;' Smiths. C, 1851, p. 9. 



