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ceived from the sarcastic expression of his mouth that he was not in 

 sympathy with me, was not 'taking my side,' as I should then liave 

 expressed it. The surprise cooled me, and the discussion was dropped. 

 "Some minutes after, having occasion to speak to my brother, I 

 turned towards him, but he was gone. I inquired when he left the 

 room, and was told that he had not been in it, which I did not believe, 

 thinking that he had come in for a minute and had gone out without 

 being noticed. About an hour and a half afterwards he appeared, and 

 convinced me, with some trouble, that he had never been near the 

 house that evening. He is still alive and well." 



Here is another case : 



"One night in March 1873 or '74, I cannot recollect which year, 

 I was attending on the sick-bed of my mother. About eight o'clock in 

 the evening I went into the dining room to fix a cup of tea, and on turn- 

 ing from the sideboard to the table, on the other side of the table before 

 the fire, which was burning brightly, as was also the gas, I saw standing 

 with his hand clasped to his side in true military fashion a soldier of 

 about thirty years of age, with dark, piercing eyes looking directly into 

 mine. He wore a small cap with standing feather; his costume was 

 also of a soldierly style. He did not strike me as being a spirit, ghost, 

 or anything uncanny, only a living man ; but after gazing for fully a 

 minute I realized that it was nothing of earth, for he neither moved 

 his eyes nor his body, and in looking closely I could see the fire beyond. 

 I was of course startled, and yet did not run out of the room. I felt 

 stunned. I walked out rapidly, however, and turning to the servant 

 in the hall asked her if she saw anything. She said not. I went into 

 my mother's room and remained talking for about an hour, but never 

 mentioned the above subject for fear of exciting her, and finally forgot 

 it altogether, returning to the dining-room, still in forgetfulness of 

 what had occurred, but repeating, as above, the turning from sideboard 

 to table in act of preparing more tea. I looked casually towards the 

 fire, and there I saw the soldier again. This time I was entirely alarmed, 

 and fied from the room in haste. I called to my father, but when he 

 came he saw nothing." 



Sometimes more than one sense is affected. The fol- 

 lowing is a case : 



" In response to your request to write out my experience of Oct. 30, 

 1886, I will inflict on you a letter. 



" On the day above mentioned, Oct. 30. 1886, I was in , 



where I was teaching. I had performed my regular routine work for 

 the day, and was sitting in my room working out trigonometrical for- 



