3.
Eighth: These variations of emphasis in No.

4 coincided sometimes with those seen in No.

2 and again with those in No.

3.
Ninth: Each one of these specimens, saving the first, ended in a shaded character.
Tenth: While some of the characters were squares or parts of a square, others were in the shape of a Y turned now this way and now that.
Eleventh: These characters were varied by the introduction of dots, and, in some cases, by the insertion of minute sketches of animals, birds, arrows, signs of the zodiac, etc., with here and there one of a humorous, possibly sarcastic, nature.
Twelfth: Dots and dots only were to be found in the specimen emanating from Mrs.Packard's hand; birds, arrows, skipping boys and hanging men, etc., being confined to No.

5, the product of another brain and hand, at present unknown.
Now what conclusions could I draw from these?
I shall give them to you as they came to me that night.