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servant do down there at night when you are all in bed ? ’ 
She was told that the servant had no business there, and the 
reply was ‘ Well, she does go down there ; I have known her 
do it more than once. She takes off her boots first.’ It is 
added, 4 We made inquiries, and found that when she thought 
we were all asleep the girl went into these rooms and helped 
herself,’ ” — little thinking that her movements would be 
traced by a blind and deaf woman ! 
It is to be deeply regretted that such statements as we 
find in Dr. Davey’s pamphlet, instead of being carefully 
verified and then rationally studied, as would be the case if 
some novel phenomenon in inorganic nature were concerned, 
are contemptuously denied by some, and purposely inter- 
woven with charlatanism by others. 
