“1.  I had arranged to meet a shopgirl one evening, outside the town.  She did not turn up.  The meeting place was a railway bridge.  Waiting there too, a few feet from me, was a boy of about 15.  He was employed (I afterward found) by a gardener, and was waiting to meet his brother, who was engaged on the line.  I got into casual conversation with him, and suddenly found myself wondering whether he ever masturbated.  With a feeling, that I can only describe by calling it an intuition, I moved nearer him, and asked:  ‘Do you ever play with yourself?’ He did not seem surprised at the abruptness of my question, and answered ‘yes.’  I thereupon touched his penis, and found he had an erection!  I suggested retiring to a bench that was near.  We sat down.  I masturbated him till he experienced the orgasm; then intercrurally.  I gave him a shilling, and said good night.

“2.  During my last summer at the university I took to gardening.  There was a small piece of garden behind the house in which I had lodgings.  My landlady suggested getting a cousin of hers, employed by a nurseryman, to supply me with plants, etc.  He was a youth of about 16 or 17, tall, dark, not bad favored in looks.  I forget how many times I saw him—­not many, perhaps twice or thrice; but one day, when he came to see me in my room, about something connected with the garden, I gave him some old clothes of mine.  He was a great deal taller than myself, and I suggested his trying on the trousers to see if they would fit.  I do not know whether I made this suggestion with any ulterior motive or whether I had ever before thought of him in connection with any sexual relations.  I only know that once more, as if guided by instinct, I felt he would not rebuff me, although certainly no indecent talk had ever taken place between us.  I pretended to help him to pull up the trousers, and let my hand touch his penis.  He did not resist; and I felt his penis for a few seconds.  I then proposed he should come upstairs to my bedroom.  No one was in the house.  We went up.  He did not at first have an erection.  I asked why.  He said ‘because you are strange to me.’  He then felt my penis.  Eventually we mutually masturbated one another.  I gave him half a crown.

“Some short time afterward he came again to the house.  On this occasion I attempted fellatio.  I don’t think I had at that time ever heard of such a practice.  He said, however, he did not like it.  He masturbated intercrurally.  He said he had never done this before, although he had had girls. (The other boy also told me he had had girls.)

“3.  On another occasion I was out bicycling.  A boy, of about 10 years of age, offered me a bunch of violets for a penny.  I told him I would give him a shilling to pick me a large bunch.  I am not sure if I had any ulterior motive.  He proceeded into a wood on the side of the road; I dismounted from my machine