I started reading the book Mr. Taylor had lent me, and before long I was so immersed in it that I almost forgot about my problems. There was a lot of stuff about safety issues and how a large number of fires were started accidentally because of kids fooling around with matches or lighters. I skipped those sections because it was pretty obvious the fires in Little River were no accident. Other chapters explained things about certain childhood disorders and how playing with fire was sometimes connected to them. They seemed to be talking about much younger children. It was kind of interesting, but not what I was looking for. The book was hard to understand in some places, and I had to keep looking words up in the dictionary. It seems that psychologists have a language of their own. That made reading it pretty slow, but it wasn’t like I had a lot of other things to do. The most interesting parts of the book were where the author gave examples from actual cases, although the names had been changed.
