338 FRAGMENTS 
/."How?" 
Medium. " I should be rendered instantly ill." 
/. " How do you feel to-day? " 
Medium. " Particularly well; I have not been so well 
for mouths." 
/. " Then, may I ask you whether there is, at the pres- 
ent moment, a magnet in my possession?" 
The young lady looked at me, blushed, and stammered: 
" No; I arn not en rapport with you." 
I sat at her right hand, and a left-hand pocket, within 
six inches of her person, contained a magnet. 
Our host here deprecated discussion, as it "exhausted 
the medium." The wonderful narratives were resumed; 
but I had narratives of my own quite as wonderful. These 
spirits, indeed, seemed clumsy creations, compared with 
those with which my own work had made me familiar. I 
therefore began to match the wonders related to me by 
other wonders. A lady present discoursed on spiritual 
atmospheres, which she could see as beautiful colors when 
she closed her eyes. I professed myself able to see 
similar colors, and, more than that, to be able to see the 
interior of my own eyes. The medium affirmed that she 
could see actual waves of light coming from the sun. I 
retorted that men of science could tell the exact number 
of waves emitted in a second, and also their exact length. 
The medium spoke of the performances of the spirits on 
musical instruments. I said that snch performance was 
gross, in comparison with a kind of music which had been 
discovered some time previously by a scientific man. Stand- 
ing at a distance of twenty feet from a jet of gas, he could 
command the flame to emit a melodious note; it would 
obev, and continue its song for hours. So loud was the 
music emitted by the gas-flame, that it might be heard by 
an assembly of a thousand people. These were acknowl- 
edged to be as great marvels as any of those of spiritdom. 
The spirits were then consulted, and I was pronounced to 
be a first-class medium. 
During this conversation a low knocking was heard from 
time to time under the table. These, I was told, were the 
spirits' knocks. I was informed that one knock, in answer 
to a question, meant " No; " that two knocks meant " Not 
yet;" and that three knocks meant " Yes." In answer to 
a question whether I was a medium, the response was three 
