A JUVENILE PRODIGY.
George Herbert Van Vleet, who is just four years old, and lives with his parents in Detroit, is a constant source ot wonder to doctors and professors. At the age of a few mouths George Herbert repeated clearly the words he heard used by the people around him. Now, on account of his extraordinary capacity for retaining every bit of information he acquires, he is called “the bo? with the mirror brain.” There is no colour or shade to which he cannot instantly give a name, and he knows all about the most important events in history. Armed with a toothprick, which he invariably uses as a pointer, he can sit down before a map ot the world and point out and name all the different countries, even in tbe most out-of-the-way regions. With all his store of facts, and his curiously retentive memory, he is just an ordinary, mischievous little fellow of tour j'ears, and as keen on romping and games as any of his small contemporaries.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1186, 18 December 1913, Page 4
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171A JUVENILE PRODIGY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1186, 18 December 1913, Page 4
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