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August, 1884. (96) I mentioned to you my husband's awaking from sleep and repeating the line from Tennyson which I had been trying to remember. That seemed to me a brain- wave, and it was immediate in its action ; but what of a deferred brain-wave ? Thus, three weeks ago, I was unable to sleep during the early hours of the night. I thought, amongst other things, of a rather comic piece of poetry which my husband used to repeat years ago. I stuck at one line and could not recall it. However, I fell asleep, and three or four hours after awoke, to find it was time to rise. My husband, after a good night's rest — undisturbed by poetry or prose — awoke also ; he stretched out his hand towards me, and repeated the line I had failed to remember in the night, and which did not occupy my thoughts when I awoke in the morning. This seemed a strange delay in giving the response. 1 Mr. Crellin says : — 62, Hilldrop Crescent, N. August 20th, 1884. My wife has told you of an incident which I am able to confirm. I awoke one morning recently, and immediately said to her, ' And his skin, like a lady's loose gown, hung about him' — this being a line of some humorous verses learnt by me when a youth, and which I have occasionally recited for the amusement of my friends, but which I had not repeated or thought of for a long period. My wife at once said that whilst lying awake during the night (I being asleep) she had been trying to recall this very line. I know of nothing that can have brought the line to my mind and lips at the moment. « pHILTp Crellin. § 3. We come now to cases where the agent's mind was in a more or less disturbed state.