Chumfo, the Super-sense 



heavily, as most men sleep, but lightly, naturally, 

 as all wild animals take their rest. Make no 

 noise, but stand or sit quietly where you can look 

 intently into the sleeper's face; and commonly, 

 by a change of position or a turning away of the 

 head or a startled opening of the eyes, the sleep- 

 er will show that he feels your look and is try- 

 ing subconsciously to avoid it. The awakening, 

 whether of animals or of men, does not always 

 follow our look, most fortunately, b.ut it happens 

 frequently enough under varying conditions to 

 put the explanation of chance entirely out of 

 the question. 



When I was a child I used to sit long hours in 

 the woods alone, partly for love of the breathing 

 solitude, and partly for getting acquainted with 

 wild birds or beasts, which showed no fear of me 

 when they found me quiet. At such times I often 

 found within myself an impression which I ex- 

 pressed in the words, "Something is watching 

 you." Again and again, when nothing stirred in 

 my sight, that curious warning would come; and 

 almost invariably, on looking around, I would 

 find some bird or fox or squirrel which had probably 

 caught a slight motion of my head and had halted 

 his roaming to creep near and watch me inquisi- 

 tively. As I grew older the "feel" of living things 

 grew dimmer; yet many times in later years, when 



