_Diss nicht la-okk_: This is not the dressing-gown. His wishes the child expresses by means of _verbs_ in the infinitive or of substantives alone. Thus, _papa auf-tehen_ (papa, get up), _frue-tuekken_ (breakfast), _aus-taigen_ (get out), _nicht blasen_ (not blow--in building card-houses), _pieldose aufziehn_ (wind up the music-box), and _biback_ (I should like a biscuit). Into these sentences of one, two, and three words there come, however, single adverbs not before used and indefinite pronouns, like _[=e][=e]n_ and _[)e]_ in _tann [=e][=e]n nicht_ or _tann[)e] nicht_, for "kann _er_ nicht" or "kann _es_ nicht." _Butter drauf_ (butter on it), _Mama auch tommen_ (mamma come, too), _noch mehr_ (more), _blos Wasser_ (only water), _hier_ (here), are the child's own imperatives. _Schon wieder_ (again) he does indeed say of his own accord on fitting occasions; but here he is probably repeating mechanically what he has heard. In all, the forming of a word that had not been heard as such, or that had not come from what had been heard through mutilation, has been surely proved in only a single instance. The child, viz., expressed the wish (on his seven hundred and ninety-sixth day) to have an apple pared or cut up, by means of the word _messen_. He knows a knife (Messer) and names it rightly, and while he works at the apple with a fork or a spoon or anything he can get hold of, or merely points at it with his hand, he says repeatedly _messen_! Only after instruction did he say _Messer neiden_ (mit dem Messer schneiden--cut with the knife). Here for the first time a wholly new word is formed. The concept and the word "knife" ("Messer") and the concept, "work with the knife," were present, but the word "schneiden" (cut) for the last was wanting, as also was "schaelen" (pare). Hence, both in one were named _messen_ (for "messern," it may be). The two expressions that used to be heard many times daily, the name _wola_ for the nurse Mima (Mary) and _atta_, have now almost disappeared. _Atta wesen_ for "draussen gewesen" (been out) is still used, it is true, but only seldom. In place of it come now _weg_, _fort_, _aus_, and _allall_, in the sense of "empty," "finished." The too comprehensive, too indefinite concept _atta_ has broken up into more limited and more definite ones. It has become, as it were, differentiated, as in the embryo the separate tissues are differentiated out of the previously apparently homogeneous tissue. In the period of rapid development now attained, the child daily surprises us afresh by his independent applications of words just heard, although many are not correctly applied, as _tochen haiss_ (boiling hot), said not only of the milk, but also of the fire.