As a noteworthy deficiency at this period is to be mentioned the feeble memory for often-prescribed answers to certain questions. To the question of a stranger, "What is your name?" the child for the first time gave of his own accord the answer _Attsell_ (Axel), on the eight hundred and tenth day of his life. On the other hand, improper answers that have been seriously censured remain fixed in his recollection. The impression is stronger here. The weakness of memory is still shown most plainly when we try to make intelligible to the child the numerals one to five. It is a failure. The sensuous impression that _one_ ball makes is so different from that which two balls make, the given words _one_ and _two_ sound so differently, that we can not help wondering how one and two, and likewise three, four, five, are confounded with one another. A _question_ has not yet been uttered by the child. The frequent _ist das_ signifies merely "das ist," or it is the echo of the oft-heard question, "Was ist das?" and is uttered without the tone of interrogation. The articles are not used at all yet; at any rate, if used, they are merely imitated without understanding. The defects of articulation are now less striking, but only very slowly does the correct and distinct pronunciation take the place of the erroneous and indistinct. We still have regularly: _buecher-rank_ for Buecherschrank (book-case). _frai takkee_ " Fraeulein Starke (Miss Starke). _[=e]r[)e]_, _tseer_ " Schere (shears). _raib[)e]_, _raiben_ " Schreiben (u. Zeichnen) (write or draw). _nur_ " Schnur (string). _neiderin_ " Schneiderin (tailoress). _dsoen_ (also _schoen_) " schoen (pretty). _lafen_ " schlafen (sleep). _pucken_ " spucken (spit). _dsehen_ (also _sehen_) " sehen (see). The sounds "sch" and "sch" in the "st" as well as in the "sp" ("schneiden, Spiel") are often omitted without any substitute (_naid[)a]_, _taign_, _piel_); more seldom their place is supplied by "s," as in _swer_ = "schwer" for "muede." Yet _ks_, _ts_ are often given with purity in _bex_, _bux_, _Axl_. The last word is often pronounced _Ats[)e]l_ and _Atsli_ (heard by him as "Axeli"), very rarely _Akkl_; in "Aufziehen" the "z" is almost always correctly reproduced. Further, we still have _locotiwe_ for Locomotive. _nepf_ " Knoepfe (buttons). _ann-nepf_ " anknoepfen. _nits_ " nichts (nothing). "Milch" is now permanently named correctly; no longer _mimi_, _mich_; Wasser, _wassa_, no longer _watja_. But "gefaehrlich" is called _faehrlich_; "getrunken," _trunken_.