96 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP. in war. I suffer pain in both my arms, as if they were mangled or cut off.” ‘Oh yes,” she replied, “I know him well ; he was killed in a railway accident, but I had been thinking of another soldier I knew.” I said, “ Now a little old lady joins him.” And I gave her description. “Yes, that is his mother,” said the lady. Then I said, “ Now I see a little cottage— an orchard—and a well.” “Yes, that is where they lived,” replied the lady. Ox Seplember 340, 1906, 1 gave six descrip- tions, all of which were recognized, five at the time, and one during the following week, after the person had had time “to think about it.” There were two that I consider worth record- ing. One was very short, in fact, only two or three words, but it was none the less strange for that reason. After the service, a stranger, who had only just arrived in Bournemouth, came to me with a plain sealed envelope in his hand, and said, “What do you get from that?” I touched it only, and got a shock. “Man,” I said, “why did you bring ¢hat here? I get sudden death—suictde—from it.” “Well,” he replied, “a man connected with the contents of that envelope was found dead