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74 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP.
place, ete., in which the sitter was at one time ill with pains in his head. “All correct,” said the sitter. “Now,” I said, “a man enters that room, bangs a parcel on the table, and leaves a lot of thawing snow on the carpet from his broad welted boots.” “I know,” said the sitter, “that is exactly what happened, and the man was Captain H——" “Yes,” I said, “and as a further test he says your doctor was So-and- so” (giving a full description). The sitter said, “That is a good likeness of the doctor, and Captain H did know him.”
On the following Tuesday I said, “A spirit has been to see me during the last week and he says his next proof of identity will be something about his pulling down a window violently and then saying, “ That's funny!” “ Nomore is needed,” said my sitter, “it zs Captain H——; he pulled a window down in my studio, and the glass fell into the street. The servant gave a man 2s. 6d. to buy some glass to repair it, but the man went off with the money and never returned, and so Captain H—— laughed and said, ‘ It is funny.’ ”
Now, sir, I consider that Captain H has proved his identity, and also that “ There is no death.”
VINCENT N. Turvey. Bournemouth:
place, ete., in which the sitter was at one time ill with pains in his head. “All correct,” said the sitter. “Now,” I said, “a man enters that room, bangs a parcel on the table, and leaves a lot of thawing snow on the carpet from his broad welted boots.” “I know,” said the sitter, “that is exactly what happened, and the man was Captain H——" “Yes,” I said, “and as a further test he says your doctor was So-and- so” (giving a full description). The sitter said, “That is a good likeness of the doctor, and Captain H did know him.”
On the following Tuesday I said, “A spirit has been to see me during the last week and he says his next proof of identity will be something about his pulling down a window violently and then saying, “ That's funny!” “ Nomore is needed,” said my sitter, “it zs Captain H——; he pulled a window down in my studio, and the glass fell into the street. The servant gave a man 2s. 6d. to buy some glass to repair it, but the man went off with the money and never returned, and so Captain H—— laughed and said, ‘ It is funny.’ ”
Now, sir, I consider that Captain H has proved his identity, and also that “ There is no death.”
VINCENT N. Turvey. Bournemouth:
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