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Rh overshoes became ruvvershoes. With spank in mind, the threat to paddle the refractory youngster became, Well, I'll spaddle you and a too hesitant wavering between it mists and it drizzles resulted in it mizzles. Unexpectedly lucid is the betrayal of an after-dinner speaker who planned to begin, unprepared as I am (Unvorbereitet wie ich bin), but had as a fact carefully rehearsed his part, and who actually said, unprepared as I have myself (Unvorbereitet wie ich mich habe). Choosing between Scherz and Spass, the speaker said Das ist kein Sperz, just as we might say, That is no jost (jest and joke). Wishing to impart the information that he was at home until seven o'clock, and that indeed he was writing until that hour, the speaker said (and might just as well have written), I was at home until seven o'clock was I writing. The process has been graphically presented by indicating by the heavy line the above-the-threshold processes, and by the dotted line the sub-threshold impulses, the crossing point being the point of intrusion of the one into the field of the other.

Or thus:

The fact that we carry on a manifold activity in the expression of thought is thus sufficiently indicated, and finds marked parallelism, so far as the lapses are concerned, in the interchange of activities (the