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1256 Q.(cont.) under these circumstances when the patients were mischievous? A. They met the circumstances as well as they could. If a man is constantly annoying you. constantly getting things out of place, he is not going to get used as well as a more quiet man. There was a man by the name of Perkins who has a great notion of taking the screws out of windows; he was a sly, shrewd man, and he would manage to get something to loosen the screws with; he would take all the screws out of a window, and have them about his person. I would get notice that there was a window loose, and I would go to him and say where are those screws, I would usually have to buy them. He would have perhaps from one to two dozen screws tied up I would say what do you want to do this for, you annoy me terribly, why don't you let things alone, you will get better used. he would say, it does not make any odds, you get your pay for putting them in. Then again he would get a piece of broken glass and cut every button off a mans clothing that would let him. He has given me a pint of buttons at at time that he has cut off of the patients clothes. That is one of the aggravations