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box and taking them out, I abstracted one of the marbles 

 and left the other two for him to play with. On taking 

 them out of the box, he missed the absent one, felt in the 

 box for it, rose, and looked where he had been sitting. 

 Again he put his hand into the box and looked at me as if 



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to say he had lost something. Failing to find it, he soon 

 became reconciled to the loss and began to play with the 

 remaining two. When he had become quite content with 

 these, I abstracted a second one. Thereupon he instituted 

 search and was quite unwilling to proceed without finding 



