The Biography of a Baby

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She would lie and utter this sound at inter- vals, by the half hour, with deep satisfaction.
But when she had not been making it for some hours, she was apt to forget just how, and to get it too high or low in the throat, producing an extraordinary collection of squeaks and grunts. She usually hit it at last ; but after repeated losings, it became quite dissolved away among the many new ones it had apparently given rise to.
Later, she took much pains over some im- perfect Hp sounds; she would H
...e looking earnestly at me, draw her breath, gather her lips into shape, and finally explode the sound with a great expenditure of breath.
She made her little sounds often with an air of friendly response when we prattled to her, giving back murmurs, croaks, and gur- 138 THE BIOGRAPHY gles for words. From the latter part of the fourth month, if we imitated to her some of these sounds, she seemed to imitate them back. Preyer, who records the same thing of his boy at the same age, thinks it marks a most important epoch, the beginning of action guided by ideas ; but Baldwin, who considers the beginning of imitation even more important than Preyer does, thinks it cannot be so early, and that the repeating of the sounds must be mere coincidence.


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