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The third case he discusses is the little girl, who is noticed to be most precocious when very young. Sadger says that she flirted with him at the age of one and a half years. At one and three quarter years, as an evidence of her very strong attraction for her father, it was noted that when she received a photograph of him at the time he went on a long trip, the child was inseparable from it. She took it to bed with her, to the table, on her walks, etc., and showed it to everybody. From birth this child had urinated much and often. As a natural result of her father's experience, she was very strictly treated and often punished, all without avail. She urinated involuntarily every time she was frightened or punished. It was noticed that when her intense desires were not fulfilled, she wet herself in her rage. Her father noted that at the age of one year and ten months she stood in front of him and wet herself, and at the same time had the vacant look of a masturbating child—this in spite of the realization that she would be severely punished. It would seem as if the pleasure derived from this act was greater than the pain which came as a necessary consequence. The relation between the child's wetting herself and her father's trips away from home is interesting. A few days after her father's departure she stopped wetting herself. But on his return her bad habits reasserted themselves; in fact, if she knew in advance that he was returning, she anticipated it by wetting her bed the night before his homecoming. This child showed, also, very strong negativistic tendencies. At the age of three, it had not been possible to train her to sit on the pot—this in spite of the fact that, in default of obedience, she suffered corporal punishment. If she was forcibly placed on it, she refused to evacuate her bowels or empty her bladder, despite the fact of her enforced position on her nursery chair, with this end in view, for long periods of time. Immediately after being dressed or