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weeks (time not definite! 3- stated) she again awoke in her second state. 

 Then her whole life, with the exception of the former five weeks passed in 

 the second state, was again a blank. Her memory now served only for 

 that five weeks of her second life. She took up the line of thought 

 and of the manner of looking upon life and its affairs, and of progress 

 in the acquisition of knowledge where it was broken off at the close of 

 the five weeks when she awoke in her natural or first state, and pursued 

 it onward as though it had not been interrupted. After this she 

 changed frequently from one to the other during the next 18 years, or 

 until about the year 1829, more than three-fourths of the time being 

 spent in the second state. There was no regularity as to the length of 

 time that either state continued before it was superseded by the other. 

 Sometimes she continued only a few days in her second state, at other 

 times a few weeks or even several months. The transitions alwa} r s oc- 

 curred during sleep. In passing from her second to her first state 

 nothing special was noticeable in her sleep, but when passing from her 

 first to her second state her sleep was so profound that she could not be 

 wakened and it often continued eighteen or twent} r hours. She usually 

 had some premonition or presentiment of the change sometime before it 

 took place, and the anticipation gave her acute mental pain, especially 

 when she was about to pass from her first to her second state, for she 

 "feared she would never revert so as to know again in this world as she 

 then knew them, those who were dear to her." Her "feelings in 

 this respect were not unlike those of one about to be separated from 

 loved ones by death." Her last change took place about the year 1829, 

 leaving her in her second state in which she continued till the close of 

 her life in Jan. 1854. During this last period of 25 years, she of 

 course had no recollection of the events of her childhood, nor of the 

 interrupted links of her first state between the years 1811 and 1829. 



During the early periods of her second state, she exhibited character- 

 istics of a childish nature, sometimes bordering on insanity. She dis- 

 liked any industrial pursuit, and spent her time in rambling about the 

 fields and woods. She ate and slept but little, sometimes going without 

 either food or sleep for two or three days. She was impatient of re- 

 straint, and took strong prejudices against her friends who tried to con- 

 trol her. She was destitute of fear, and ran considerable risk in her 

 rambles, as the woods were infested with wolves, bears, rattlesnakes, 

 and other animals. Once, on horseback riding along a path, she en- 

 countered a bear, which she afterward described as a singular black hog 

 which stood erect on its hind legs, grinning and growling at her, and 

 greatly frightening the horse. She refused to allow the horse to turn 

 back, and was about to dismount and drive the bear away with a stick, 

 when it fortunately saw fit to retreat, occasionally turning about and 



