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Silver Street, Lincoln. May 7th, 1885. I have seen Mr. [the clergyman], and quite agree with all he said. The old man was sitting down in the room, and I felt certain of his presence, and was greatly astonished not to find him in the room. The reports we have given are absolutely true, without any doubts in either of our minds. u -yy- ip Cant. Dr. Cant was asked whether he had ever had any other hallucinations ; and also whether he would have been certain to see any real person occupying the position where the clergyman saw the figure. He replied : — In answer to your questions these phenomena are quite new to me, and I never remember having one of the sort before. It was quite im2J0Ssible for the figure that Mr. saw to have been there, as I must have seen it when passing, and he only saw one figure, and did not see me at all. The next two cases resemble the last, in the point that the two percipients do not seem to have seen exactly the same thing. Surgeon-Major Samuel Smith, of Wyndham House, E^ngsdown Parade, Bristol, sent the following account to the Western Daily Press (Nov. 30, 1881), and has since confirmed it to us. (320) I solemnly vouch for the truth of the statement made. I will add that I have been, although not a professed teetotaller, a total abstainer from stimulants for the past 10 years, and that I am not a believer in Spiritualism as it exists in the present day. About 20 minutes past 1 1 o'clock on the night of the 20th of April last, I was engaged with my wife's mother in playing a selection from ' La Figlia del Reggimento ' for the flute and piano. We were seated in the drawing-room, which was brilliantly lighted by three large gaslights burning in globes which hung from the centre of the ceiling, the only other occupants of the room being my wife, who had fallen asleep upon the couch, and the baby asleep in the cradle. My wife's brother, who had been with us, left the room at 11 o'clock, and retired to rest. The room itself is spacious, lofty, and parallelogram-shaped, the piano occupying a position immediately opposite to the only door of entrance in the middle of the corresponding long side, so that in playing we sat with our backs to the door, which was closed. I was thoroughly intent upon the music, which was new to me, and difficult to read, so far as the flute was concerned, owing to the small size of the notes ; when suddenly, in the midst of the performance, a strange feeling of mingled awe and fear came over me, and I distinctly felt the approach of someone, o