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afterwards entertained them with a pleasant song, without any of 

 them suspecting he was asleep, and without his retaining after 

 he awoke, the least recollection of what he had done." 



" Dr. Haycock, Professor of Medicine at Oxford, would deliver 

 a good sermon in his sleep ; nor could all the pinching and 

 pulling of his friends prevent him." d 



Horstius mentions a young nobleman who was observed by 

 his brother to rise in his sleep, put on his cloak, open the case- 

 ment, mount by a pulley to the roof of the citadel of Brenstein 

 where he was, tear a magpie's nest to pieces, wrap the young 

 ones up in his cloak, return to his room, place the cloak with 

 the birds in it near him, and go to bed. In the morning he told 

 the adventure as a dream, and was astonished when shown the 

 magpies in his cloak, and Jed to the roof and shown the remains 

 of the nest. 



" An American lady, now, we believe, alive, preached during 

 her sleep, performing regularly every part of the Presbyterian 

 service, from the psalm to the blessing. This lady was the 

 daughter of respectable and even wealthy parents : she fell into 

 bad health, and under its influence, she disturbed and amazed 

 her family by her nocturnal eloquence. Her unhappy parents, 

 though at first surprised, and perhaps flattered by the exhibition 

 in their family of so extraordinary a gift, were at last convinced 

 that it was the result of disease ; and, in the expectation that 

 their daughter might derive benefit from change of scene, as 

 well as from medical skill, they made a tour with her of some 

 length, and visited New York and some other of the great cities 

 of the Union. We know individuals who have heard her preach 

 during the night in steam boats ; and it was customary, at tea 

 parties in New York (in the houses of medical practitioners), to 

 put the lady into bed in a room adjacent to the drawing-room, 

 in order that the dilettanti might witness so extraordinary a 

 phenomenon. We have been told by ear-witnesses that her 

 sermons, though they had the appearance of connected dis- 

 courses, consisted chiefly of texts of Scripture strung together. 

 It is strongly impressed upon our memory that some of her 

 sermons were published in America." 6 



" A lady subject to spectral illusions would not only talk in 



d Dr. Macnish, 1. c. 182. e Fraser's Magazine. 



