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I was glad to get away from this subject, leaving the audience far from satisfied, and turn to the next question. It said Is the Candidate aware that the important township of Spratling is entirely without a pier or jetty of any description? "Certainly I am aware of it," I replied, trying hard to remember where the place was. The audience began to titter, and I felt uneasy.

And she gave him her hand to kiss, which he executed without any of the grace which the Prince would have put into the ceremony, and with a grumble that, though small fish were reported better than none, this was a very meagre spratling indeed. "Think," said Patsy, mischievously, "what a change since our last afternoon in the Nest under the beech-tree.

"The Care of Epileptics," William P. Letchworth in Proceedings of Twenty-third National Conference of Charities, pp. 199 sq. "Industrial Education of Epileptics," Dr. William P. Spratling in Proceedings of Twenty-fourth National Conference of Charities, pp. 69 sq. "Destitute Convalescents: After Care of the Insane," Dr. Richard Dewey in the same, pp. 76 sq. See also discussion on pp. 464 sq.

The power of inhibition being finally destroyed, the nervous storm breaks with great force and violence." p. 361. Although Spratling had in mind a toxic agent, one cannot but be struck with how completely his terms describe an emotional outburst. In a paper read in Boston last winter, Dr.

In all cases there is a strong tendency to criminality which is unbearable to consciousness. The attack is a substitute for an offense, hence, eventually a sexual offense. Pseudo-epilepsy is curable by psychoanalysis. Spratling calls attention "to the value of an occasional convulsion in certain cases.

"On one condition only," I added at the top of my voice, above the rising tide of mocking laughter, "on condition that you, sir, will personally guarantee a continuous and efficient service of fast steamers between Spratling and the sea-coast!" It was not a brilliant effort. I think I could have made more of it if I had had more time. But it served. How they laughed!