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might well be interpreted in the language quoted. I have no
personal memory of the facts and hence cannot verify the statement,
but it is very probable from what I know of those earlier
times, the latter period of which was going out in my earliest
childhood. ,
There followed a reference to something about her death and
burial, a cemetery " a long way from here ", a removal but not
of her body, and the building of a new house. The incidents are
not clear enough to make an important evidential point of them.
But there was something special about her death and burial and
a removal not of her body that was of special interest, tho we
cannot be sure that this is in mind. A new house was built
some eight years before her death. But the confusion here was
too great to be sure that the incidents are those I have indicated.
The sitting came to an end before the matter was cleared up.
But the name Sarah came at the end and it was said to be
connected with me. This is correct as my deceased sister had
that name and the reason that it was connected with me lay in
the fact that she was my twin sister, tho this is not stated in
the message.
At the next sitting, as soon as she obtained adequate control
the following confused but remarkable message came:
I recall the winter, the cold of the year when I was last with
you all, so long long ago and the incident of funeral burial I wish
to recall, the unlooked for incident. You know the strain of the
two together, two in one grave. Yes it was a great strain for him,
but it was better as it was and there were those there who thought
it so. Double funeral and yet not double woe, understand, one
little which made it less to bring responsibility to your father and
made it easier for me in the new life, you understand.
This confused message is an attempt to tell some very interesting
facts. My mother died from the effects of childbirth
and a few days before she died the infant was buried, having
been still-born. She knew that she was going to die, tho not at
first, so that the incident was really " unlooked for " before
complications which arose and which I need not mention here,
and when she knew that she could not live, she asked to be
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