Note 51 — IV. PRODUCTS OF CHILD-THOUGHT.

Egger quotes a remark of a little girl: “I shall carry Emile (her older brother) when he gets little”. This may, as Egger suggests, have been merely a confusion of the conditional and the future. But the idea about old people’s shrinking cannot be dismissed in this summary way (see Perez, First Three Years of Childhood, p. 224).