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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER XIV
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It was confirmed by Mr.Hoffman, by Mr.George Brown and by Miss Conley, examined by the Rev.Mr.Crum, of Dubuque .-- Proceedings, S.P.R., viii., 200-205.

Pat Conley, too, corroborated, and had no theory of explanation.

That the girl knew beforehand of the dollars is conceivable, but she did not know of the change of clothes.
{56a} Told by the nobleman in question to the author.
{56b} The author knows some eight cases among his friends of a solitary meaningless hallucination like this.
{58} As to the fact of such visions, I have so often seen crystal gazing, and heard the pictures described by persons whose word I could not doubt, men and women of unblemished character, free from superstition, that I am obliged to believe in the fact as a real though hallucinatory experience.

Mr.Clodd attributes it to disorder of the liver.

If no more were needed I could "scry" famously! {60a} Facts attested and signed by Mr.Baillie and Miss Preston.
{60b} Story told to me by both my friends and the secretary.
{62} Memoires, v., 120.


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