The author shows, in an interesting analysis, the meaning of homesickness to a girl of five years. After being settled in a new home and country for several months the child suddenly began to long for the estate of her grandmother where at the age of four she had found consolation for the frustration attendant upon the birth of a little sister. The grandmother and a friendly dairymaid had helped her to get over the disappointment of having to share mother's love with the new baby. Her jealousy was particularly aroused by the mother's nursing the baby. A cow which 'had four nipples and belonged all to herself' was accepted as a satisfactory substitute. What appeared to be homesickness proved to be a longing for the mother's breast. In fantasies which the child dictates to her mother, 'fear of starvation, the anxiety that her mother will no longer be in a position to maintain and feed her child's appear as her most important problem. In these fantasies, jealousy and death wishes against her