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I noticed, this morning before he awakened to get ready for school, Mr. Boy was sucking his fingers in his sleep. Three months after we started painting his fingernails with essence of cactus–at the request of the dentist who said his permanent teeth would come in crooked–Mr. B.’s apparently become accustomed to the rancid taste of the stuff. He doesn’t suck his fingers during the day, that I’ve noticed, but I’m going to start watching for it again. The taste of the stuff on his fingernails used to disgust him, but that’s apparently over. Unfortunately, the finger-sucking isn’t. Longterm habits are hard to break.