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that one " — and he pointed to a particularly i)rominent 

 specimen on the back of one hand. Strange to say, after 

 a short time, every wart had vanished from the man's 

 hands, except the selected one, which remained unchanged. 

 And he often told me afterwards how bitterly he regretted 

 having been such a fool as to keep that ugly wart back, 

 when all the others had so completely disappeared. 



On this subject Mr. E. D. Marqunnd has supplied 

 me with three interesting cases which occurred to persons 

 personally known to hiiu, and from whom he received the 

 particulars. 



A young woman, Guernsey born and bred, and living 

 with her parents at St. Martin's, being troubled with warts 

 on her hands, Avas told that they Avould be cured if she, 

 unknown to anyone, stole a piece of meat, rubbed the 

 warts with it, and then buried it. So one day, when her 

 mother was away, she cut a small bit from the family 

 dinner before it was put in to cook, rubbed her hands 

 carefully with it, and buried the piece in the garden. For 

 some days after she was deeply disappointed to find that 

 the w^arts remained just as before, and showed no signs of 

 going away, so she gave the trial up as a failure, when, to 

 her intense surprise, " a week or two afterwards," she 

 noticed that all her warts had completely disappeared, and 

 she has had none since then. 



The second case happened to this same girl's father, 

 when he AA^as a young man of eighteen. His hands Avere 

 covered Avith warts. An acquaintance of his, a young Avoman 

 who noticed them, asked him to count them ; he did so, 

 and found there Avere forty-eight. She told him to count 

 them again, in case he had made a mistake, and to do so once 

 more, three times in all ; but the number was ahvays the 

 same, forty-eight. Nothing more Avas said, but some time 

 after, when the man had forgotten all about the matter, 

 he w^as amazed to discover that all the warts were gone, and 

 since that day he has never had another. It is interesting to 

 notice that the j)rinciple of faith-healing does not come in 

 here, because the man had no idea whatever that his friend 

 intended to remoA^e the warts, nor did he know that she 

 possessed any reputed poAver to do so. Being subsequently 

 questioned however, the woman persistently refused to say 

 what means had been employed to effect the cure. 



The third case happened to a servant-maid at St. 

 Martin's whose hands Avere unusually disfigured by large and 

 ugly warts. One of the men employed by the States in 



