{74} Here the appearance gave correct information unknown previously to General Barter, namely, that Lieutenant B.grew stout and wore a beard before his death, also that he had owned a brown pony, with black mane and tail.

Even granting that the ghosts of the pony and lieutenant were present (both being dead), we are not informed that the grooms were dead also.

The hallucination, on the theory of "mental telegraphy," was telegraphed to General Barter's mind from some one who had seen Lieutenant B.ride home from mess not very sober, or from the mind of the defunct lieutenant, or, perhaps, from that of the deceased pony.
The message also reached and alarmed General Barter's dogs.
Something of the same kind may or may not explain Mr.Hyndford's view of the family coach, which gave no traceable information.
The following story, in which an appearance of the dead conveyed information not known to the seer, and so deserving to be called veracious, is a little ghastly.
THE BRIGHT SCAR In 1867, Miss G., aged eighteen, died suddenly of cholera in St.
Louis.

In 1876 a brother, F.G., who was much attached to her, had done a good day's business in St.Joseph.

He was sending in his orders to his employers (he is a commercial traveller) and was smoking a cigar, when he became conscious that some one was sitting on his left, with one arm on the table.