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and in every case his correctness was proved by the sinking of 

 a well. In this instance a lady was again the only person among 

 the spectators who could use the rod, and she seemed to be able 

 to do so quite as well as Mullins. 



Sir W, E. Welby Gregory, Bart., of Denton Manor, Grantham, 

 formerly M.P. for South Lincolnshire, and who has just been 

 elected chairman of the Lincolnshire County Council, gives some 

 interesting experiences in a published letter which is too long to 

 quote in its entirety, but from which I will extract the most 

 essential points. He was preparing to build a large country house 

 on a site selected, among other reasons, for its dryness, and it 

 was a problem where the water supply was to come from, as there 

 was none apparent which could be brought to the house without 

 great expense. Mullins was sent for, and he was first tested by 

 being taken across the lawn of the old house, underneath which 

 was a current of water at a depth of a few feet, though there 

 was nothing to indicate it. Whenever he crossed the drain, how- 

 ever, the twig at once turned upwards. He then went to the 

 kitchen garden, where there had always been much want of 

 water, and presently the twig stopped him at a spot apparently 

 as dry as the rest and with nothing distinctive about it. Here 

 he said was water at a depth of between 20 and 30 feet. He 

 next proceeded to the site of the new house, and indicated two 

 lines, about 30 yards apart, along which, he said, water was 

 flowing in somewhat greater volume than the rill he had found 

 in the kitchen garden. He afterwards went further afield, but 

 could find no other signs of water. From his repeated trials he 

 appeared to be exhausted, and was dismissed to tea in the 

 housekeeper's room. The remainder may be told in Sir Welby 

 Gregory's own words : — 



" After tea several of the servants, whose curiosity was excited, 

 got him to exhibit his art to them, and tried whether they them 

 selves had any power with the twig. My gardener, Joseph Towers, 

 found that it worked in his hands nearly as strongly as in 



