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while his philosophical and highly cultivated mind perceived the 
great importance of a careful study of so anomalous a subject. 
His government of the foundling was tender and judicious, and 
he placed on record Kaspar’s sayings and doings and the manner 
»f his gradual development. 
In the Daumer house Kaspar slept for the first time in a bed, 
ind he greatly enjoyed its comfort. Until that time, however, he 
had never dreamed, and he believed his visions of the night to be 
sctual occurrences, until convinced of the difference between 
vaking and sleeping experiences. 
His diet was regulated with great care. The extreme sensitive- 
sess of his nervous system, and his almost complete lack of 
nuscular force, seemed to imply that his body demanded more 
Jourishment than was to be found in bread and water; accordingly, 
2s soon as he began to recover from the effects of his exciting life 
in the Tower, he was gradually accustomed to stronger food, and 
Jfter three months, was able to digest and enjoy vegetable soup, 
slain chocolate, milk gruel, and potatoes. His eyes being still 
-xtremely weak and his head inclined to ache, his teacher did not 
At first allow him to study, but taught him to play chess and 
hackgammon, and to make boxes and other trifles out of paste- 
board : he was also encouraged to occupy himself with light work 
in the garden, as a means of keeping him a great deal in the open 
air, and of teaching him in an easy way to distinguish the nature 
ind qualities of various objects concerning which he had at first 
no 1dea. 
He supposed trees and plants to be as much alive as men and 
nimals; the waving of branches in the wind he considered a volun- 
ary movement ; to strike a tree, he thought, gave it pain. So, too, 
victures and statues were as real to him as the persons and things 
represented : he was surprised that the sculptured animals on the 
houses remained always in the same place ; he was angry with a 
statue in the garden because it did not wash away the dust and 
dirt which accumulated upon it ; he was horrified at the crucifix 
on the outside of St. Sebald’s Church, and begged that the suffer- 
ing man might be taken down.