is thoroughly regular and even.

In the average or normal person who has learned to talk correctly,
speaking should be practically an unconscious process. It should
not be necessary to make a conscious effort to form words, nor
should a normal individual be conscious of the energy necessary to
create a word or the muscular movements necessary to its formation
and expression.

This will explain why the stutterer or stammerer can talk without
difficulty to animals or when alone--there is no self-
consciousness--no conscious effort--no thinking of what is being
done.

Another of the peculiarities of stammering is that the stammerer
in many cases seems to be able to talk perfectly in concert. This
has long baffled the investigator in this field, no reason being
assignable for this ability to talk in connection with others. The
baffling element has been this--that the investigator has assumed
that the stammerer talked well in concert, whereas a very careful
scientist would have discovered the stammerer to be a fraction of
a second or a part of a syllable behind the others.

You have doubtless been in church at some time when you were not
entirely familiar with the hymn being sung, yet by lagging a note
or two behind the rest, you could sing the song, to all
appearances being right along with the others.

When you talk over the long-distance telephone, the voice seems
instantly to reach the party at the other end of the line, yet we