ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

90 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
mother was trying to get the infant to talk. There was no recognizable
meaning in this. After a pause he asked if I was born in
the country. I said I was, and asked if we had the conveniences of
a city and I said we had not. He then saw the picture of an outhouse
which he defined correctly and said it was red. This was
not correct, tho the outhouse was an incident of my boyhood life.
Then he got the picture of a buck-saw lying up against the
house, and asked if this was familiar to me. I said it was, for I
used to use a buck-saw for cutting wood for my stepmother. Then
he said: " They show me what seems to be a cedar tree." I asked
where and he said it was connected with the surroundings. I
. asked him to locate it more exactly, if he could. He replied that
it seemed to be off from the corner of the house and that it must
be seen at the left hand side corner. He referred to the peculiar
color of the house, and on being asked what the color was said it
was not red. I thought this wrong but did not say so, oecause I
was thinking of the living house which was red. He drew a picture
of what he meant and where the cedar tree was. He placed the
tree at the left side of the end of the house but at the wrong corner.
But it soon flashed into my mind that it was the milk-house that
was in mind or that exactly fitted the case, and this was not red.
The cedar tree was at the left hand corner of this. He then wandered
for a moment to the stairway in the living house and spoke of it
as a new stair and the old one as having been taken out. This was
true enough, but no special significance attached to it. Then I
asked him to locate the cedar tree more definitely. He asked if
it was in the way. I said it was not correct, but that I wanted him
to stick to it. I saw that, if he meant by "way" the path, it was
nearly C(lrrect, but did not give any hints. He then remarked that
there was something odd about the location. I remained silent and
he said they take me to a house on Ann Street where there is a
tree at the corner of the house." I told him to go further with it
and he said: " They show me a narrow or angular thing and a fence
by the road." He then seemed to be taken up stairs and made an
allusion to a wheel chair. I said it was not relevant and he asked
if there was any one by the name of Wheeler connected with it
and I said, No. I asked him to explain the angular shaped thing
and he compared it to a tent which it resembled in the drawing.
He asked me if it had anything to do with it and I replied that
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