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the opposite chair, Mr. G. Darwin on the medium's right, Mr. 

 Huxley on his left, Mr. Z between Mr. Huxley and Mr. Darwin. 

 The table was small enough to allow these five people to rest 

 their hands on it, linking them together. On the table was a 

 guitar which lay obliquely across it, an accordion on the medi- 

 um's side of the guitar, a couple of paper horns, a Japanese fan, 

 a matchbox, and a candlestick with a candle. 



At first the room was slightly darkened (leaving plenty of 

 light from the window, however) and we all sat round for half 

 an hour. My right foot was against the medium's left foot, and 

 two fingers of my right hand had a good grip of the little finger 

 of his left hand. I compared my hand (which is not small and 

 is strong) with his, and was edified by its much greater massive- 

 ness and strength. (No, we didn't link until the darkness. 

 G. D.) 



G. D.'s left hand was, as I learn, linked with medium's 

 right hand, and left foot on medium's left [right] foot. 



We sat thus for half an hour as aforesaid and nothing hap- 

 pened. 



The room was next thoroughly darkened by shutting the 

 shutters and drawing the curtains. Nevertheless, by great good 

 fortune I espied three points of light, coming from the lighted 

 passage outside the door. One of these came beneath the door 

 straight to my eye, the other two were on the wall (or on a 

 press) obliquely opposite. By still greater good fortune, these 

 three points of light had such a position in reference to my eye 

 that they gave me three straight lines traversing and bounding 

 the space in which trie medium sat, and I at once saw that if 

 medium moved his body forwards or backwards he must occult 

 one of my three rays. While therefore taking care to feel his 

 foot and keep a good grip of his hand, I fixed my eyes intently 

 on rays A and B. For I felt sure that I could trust to G. D. 

 keeping a sharp look-out on the right hand and foot ; and so 

 no instrument of motion was left to the medium but his body 

 and head, the movements of which could not have been dis- 

 cernible in absolute darkness. Nothing happened for some time. 

 At length a very well executed muscular twitching of the arm 

 on my side began, and I amused myself by comparing it with the 

 convulsions of a galvanised frog's leg, but at the same time kept 

 a very bright look-out on my two rays A and B. 



The twitchings ceased, and then after a little time A was 

 shut out. B then became obscure, and A became visible. " Ho 

 ho ! " thought I, " Medium's head is well over the table. Now 



