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dairymen, grocers, and housekeepers, ladies’ companions, etc., whilst the 
abnormals, without a single exception, are labourers or employed in the 
ranks of unskilled labour. 
The Feet . — Here the one main peculiarity is the shortness of the toes — 
each one apparently having only two phalanges. They are also broad and 
No. 120. 
Fig. 7. 
straight, with very little tendency to the extreme flexion of many 
“ ordinary ” toes. One boy said he could not run as fast as other boys of 
the same height, and this he attributed to the shortness of his feet, but 
none of the others made the same complaint ; in fact, three brothers have 
played “ forward ” in the leading football club of their town. 
The photograph of the plantar aspect of the foot of No. 120 (fig. 7) shows 
the whole length of the toes, my thumb retracting the skin of the sole in 
