lullaby but quickly became
the child's own. I give two more examples of stories. In the first, does
not this five-year-old girl give us her vivid impressions in marvelously
simple sense and motor terms? And does not the six-year-old boy in the
second show that imagination can spring from real experiences?

STORIES BY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS

I am going to tell you a story about when I went to Falmouth with
my mother. We had to go all night on the train and this is the way
it sounded, (moving her hand on the table and intoning in different
keys) thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, _NEW ARK!_
thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum, thum,
FALMOUTH! And then we got off and we took a trolley car and the
trolley car went clipperty, clipperty, clipperty, zip, zip. And
another trolley car came in the other direction (again with hands)
and one came along saying clipperty, clipperty, clipperty, zip, zip
and the other came along saying clipperty, clipperty, clipperty,
zip, zip, zip, BANG! And they hit in the middle and they got stuck
and they tried to pull them apart and they stuck and they stuck and
they stuck and finally they got them apart and then we went again.
And when we got off we had to take a subway and the subway went
rockety-rockety-rockety-rock. You know a subway makes a terrible
noise! It made a _terrible_ noise it sounded like
rockety-rockety-rockety-rockety-rock.

And at last we got there and when we came up in the streets of
Falmouth it was so still that I didn't know what to do. You know
the streets of Falmouth are just so terribly quiet and then we had
to walk millions and millions of miles almost to get to our little
cottage. And when we got there I put on my bathing suit and I went
in bathing and I shivered just like this because it was a rainy
day, the day I went to Falmouth with my mother.

The Talk of the Brook

O brook, O brook, that sings so loud,
O brook, O brook, that goes all day,
O brook, O brook, that goes all night
And forever.
Splashes and waves, girls and boys are playing with
You and in you.
Some with shoes off and some with shoes on,
And some are crying because they fell in you.
O brook, O brook, have you an end ever?
Or do you go forever?

Technically in all these stories the child exemplifies the two rules