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improved ; he studied regularly under Professor Daumer’s direc- 
tion, rode horseback, visited the friends of the family, and led an 
agreeable and improving life. He became very skilful in his 
pasteboard work, and took pleasure in presenting the best speci- 
mens to persons who had shown him kindness. Soon there was 
a great demand for Kaspar Hauser’s boxes and other trifles ; for 
he was a pet in Nuremberg society, and many people were dis- 
posed to show him injudicious attention. 
His conduct towards women was very peculiar. His sexual 
nstincts were as yet entirely dormant, and whereas he at first 
distinguished females from males only by their clothing, he now 
seemed to judge between them by their respective capacity for 
ntellectual achievement and general usefulness, to the great ad- 
vantage of the masculine portion of the race. Instead of being 
lattered by the notice paid him by women in society, their atten- 
tons served only to increase his unreasonable contempt for the 
air sex. He respected elderly ladies, and also industrious women 
of the working-classes ; he even declared that he would like to 
marry Barbara, Mayor Binder’s faithful and efficient cook, his idea 
of marriage being the engaging of a servant who could be dis- 
missed if her work proved to be unsatisfactory. 
On the other hand, he criticised without mercy the faults and 
ailings of young girls : they were good for nothing, he said, but 
‘0 sit still, and knit and sew a little ; they ate and drank continu- 
ally, mixing up all sorts of food, so that it was no wonder they 
were always ill ; they spoke against each other when separate, and 
were full of flattery when together. Sometimes one would say to 
another : “I will tell you a secret; but you must not repeat it ; ” 
and the listener would promise never to say a word ; but as soon 
as she met a friend she would say: “I know something; but you 
nust not tell anybody,” and so the secret would be passed around 
antil it was known to the whole town. 
On one occasion a lady undertook to teach him something 
which she wanted him to know ; but he did not take the effort in 
good part, and told the family at home that he thought she would 
do better to keep her room : e, when he was holding 
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