that my walk is mannish, and I have very frequently been told that I do things—­such as sewing,—­’just like a man.’  My voice is quite low but not coarse.  I dislike household work, but am fond of sports, gardening, etc.  When so young that I cannot remember it, I learned to whistle, a practice at which I am still expert.  When a young girl, I learned to smoke, and should still enjoy it.

    “Several men have been good friends of mine, but very few
    suitors.  I scarcely ever feel at ease with a man; but women I
    understand and can nearly always make my friends.

“I am of Scotch-Irish descent.  My father’s family were respectable, prosperous, religious people; my mother’s family only semi-respectable, hard livers, shrewd, but not intelligent, industrious and money-getting, but fond of drinking and carousing.  There were many illegitimates among them.  Both grandmothers, though of little education, were unusual women.  Of my four maternal uncles, three drank heavily.

“When 43, my mother gave birth to me, the youngest of 8 children.  Of those who grew to adult years, 2 seem quite normal sexually; 1 is exceedingly erratic, entirely unprincipled, has been a thief and a forger, is a probable bigamist, and has betrayed several respectable women.  Aside from his having inordinate desire, I know of no sexual abnormality.  Another brother, married and a father, as a boy was much given to infatuations for men.  I fancy this never went beyond infatuation and of late years has not been noticeable.  A third brother, single, though much courted by women on account of his good looks and personal charm, is wholly unresponsive, has no gallantry, nor was ever, to my knowledge, a suitor.  He is, however, fond of the society of women, especially those older than he.  He has a somewhat effeminate voice and walk.  Though he has begun of late years to smoke and drink a little, these habits sit rather oddly upon him.  When a child, one of his favorite make-believe games was to pretend that he was a famous woman singer.  At school he was always found hanging around the older girls.

“As a child I loved to stay in the fields, refused to wear a sunbonnet, used to pretend I was a boy, climbed trees, and played ball.  I liked to play with dolls, but I did not fondle them, or even make them dresses.  When my hair was clipped, I was delighted and made everyone call me ‘John.’  I used to like to wear a man’s broad-brimmed hat and make corn-cob pipes.  I was very fond of my father and tried to imitate him as much as possible.  Where animals were concerned, I was entirely fearless.

“I think I was not a sexually precocious child, though I seem to have always known in a dim way that there were two sexes.  Very early I had a sense of shame at having my body exposed; I remember on one occasion I could not be persuaded to undress before a young girl visitor.  At that time I must have been about