“There is developed in the boy at this age the desire and craving for tales, for legends, for all kinds of stories, and later on for historical accounts. This craving, especially in its first appearance, is very intense; so much so that, when others fail to gratify it, the boys seek to gratify it themselves, particularly on days of leisure and in times when the regular employments of the day are ended” (5: pp. 115-116). He thinks that this is the dawn of historical interest, the longing to know the past, and he notices the strange or almost mystic harmony or communion between the figures and events in these stories of the past and the children’s own inner thoughts and feelings. Another side of the boy’s story interest is his anthropomorphism. This has already existed during the earlier period, but it develops with the growth of the child’s soul. Froebel says: “There is developed in him the intense desire for fables and fairy tales which impart language and reason to speechless things--the one within and the other beyond the limits of human relations and human, earthly phenomena of life.... If here, too, the boy’s desire is not or cannot be gratified by his attendants he will spontaneously hit upon the invention and presentation of fairy tales and fables, and either work them out in his own mind alone or entertain his companions with them” (5: pp. 116-117). Boyhood is preëminently the age of day-dreams and story-telling. Again, boyhood is the period of song. The juvenile flow of the life tide finds its outlet in the living waves of rhythm. “How the serene, happy boy of this age rejoices in song! He feels, as it were, a new, true, life in song. It is the sense of growing power that in his wandering from the valley to the hill and from hill to hill, pours forth the joyous songs from his throat” (5: p. 118). Songs are enjoyed by him when put into the mouths of others, because they express the stirring of his own soul in the way he wishes. “Whatever his mind vaguely apprehends fills his heart with joy and pleasure, as the sense of the power and the feeling of spring, he would fain express in words; but he feels himself unable to do so. He seeks for words, and as he cannot yet find them in himself, he rejoices intensely to hear them from others” (5: p. 117).