For example, Lichtenberg coined the saying: “_New baths heal well_,” which immediately reminds one of the proverb, “_New brooms clean well_,” whose first and last words, as well as whose whole sentence structure, is the same as in the first saying. It has undoubtedly arisen in the witty thinker’s mind as an imitation of the familiar proverb. Thus Lichtenberg’s saying is an allusion to the latter. By means of this allusion something is suggested that cannot be frankly said, namely, that the efficacy of the baths taken as cures is due to other things beside the thermal springs whose attributes are the same everywhere. The solution of the technique of another one of Lichtenberg’s jokes is similar: “_The girl barely twelve modes old._” That sounds something like the chronological term “_twelve moons_” (i.e., months), and may originally have been a mistake in writing in the permissible poetical expression. But there is a good deal of sense in designating the age of a feminine creature by the changing modes instead of by the changing of moons. The connection of similarity may even consist of a single slight modification. This technique again runs parallel with a word-technique. Both kinds of witticisms create almost the identical impression, but they are more easily distinguishable by the processes of the wit-work. The following is an example of such a word-witticism or pun. The great singer, Mary Wilt, who was famous not merely on account of the magnitude of her voice, suffered the mortification of having a title of a play, dramatized from the well-known novel of Jules Verne, serve as an allusion to her corpulency. “_The trip around the Wilt_ (world) _in eighty days_.” Or: “_Every fathom a queen_,” which is a modification of the familiar Shakespearian quotation, “_Every inch a king_,” and served as an allusion to a prominent woman who was unusually big physically. There would really be no serious objection if one should prefer to classify this witticism as a substitution for condensation with modification (cf. tête-à-bête, p. 25). Discussing the hardships of the medical profession, namely, that physicians are obliged to read and study constantly because remedies and drugs once considered efficacious are later rejected as useless, and that despite the physician’s best efforts the patient often refuses to pay for the treatment, one of the doctors present remarked: “_Yes, every drug has its day_,” to which another added, “_But not every Doc gets his pay_.” These two witty remarks are both modifications with allusion of the well-known saying, “_Every dog has his day_.” But here, too, the technique could be described as fusion with modification.