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life is one long drag for him. When being tested, he answered 
those questions which had to do with memory but did noth- 
ing that required thinking. Like his brother, Luke steals. 
One of his chief forms of amusement is to shoot at cows to 
see them run. He is considered a bad boy by his neighbors. 
So it would seem that he is interested in the wrong things. 
Oscar, the fifth child of Homer Smith, is feeble-minded. 
He is 10 years old with an I.Q. of 58. He is a small chap for 
his age, who can grin only on one side of his face, has a 
speech defect, is infested with lice, and usually has sore eyes. 
He does not play much with the other children and is teased 
quite a bit by the schoolboys. He has been in school since he 
was 6 years old and cannot yet do the work of the primary 
grade, altho he was placed in the first grade this year. 
The sixth child of Homer Smith died in infancy. The 
6 smaller children were not in school and were not tested. They 
were all undersized, dirty, and mean. The mother says that 
they are just like the other boys and she cannot do anything 
with them. 
Harry, the third child of Catherine Smith, is married to 
Zella White, by whom he has 6 children. He works in a stone 
quarry part of the time and operates a '‘blind tiger” the re- 
mainder of the time. He is a low-grade normal. 
Ralph, the first child of Harry Smith, is feeble-minded, 
a borderline case. He is 12 years old with an I.Q. of 76. He 
is in the fourth grade. 
Minnie, the second child of Harry Smith, is feeble-minded. 
She is 8 years old with an I.Q. of 63. Her teacher says that 
he has quit trying to teach her anything*. She is stubborn, 
contrary, will fight, steal, and swear. 
Betty and Claud, the fifth and sixth children of John and 
Bertha Keen Allen, died in infancy. 
The sister of John Allen married Chester Bell, who was 
alcoholic and licentious. He was known as a wild-cat in Ken- 
tucky, from which state he came. They became the parents 
of 7 children : Chester, Sam, Ed, and 4 others who died of 
tuberculosis. 
Sam Bell married Laura Storen, the child of David Storen 
and a Mitchel woman. Before her marriage she had 1 ille- 
gitimate son, Hugh, whose father was probably Sam Bell, the 
man she married. By Laura, he had 3 other children: Roy, 
