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178 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
wild around the fields and not to be blue bells ", that were put
at her grave. I do not remember anything of this incident. But
violets grew wild and were cultivated by my mother in the yard.
She was very fond of them and some may have been taken to
her grave, but I have no recollection of it.
This imperfect message was interrupted with a reference to
clover and to buckwheat, the latter of which was said to be " so
pretty growing " and to have been sown for: its flour and for
the making of honey. This was perfectly correct. I suspect
the allusion to clover was a marginal aspect of the picture in
the effort to refer to the buckwheat, as it was one of the plants
from which honey was taken by the bees. The buckwheat was
sown for two reasons; namely, for the two mentioned, and the
fields of it were certainly very pretty when growing and in
flower. She said the honey "was a treat and lots of it". This
was true. We had it in great abundance.
Then came a reference to a carriage with the following confused
statement: " Some had to walk. You know there was a
preparation for a meeting where some started early and walked."
When I asked what meeting it was the answer came: " Sunday
meeting."
This evidently refers to the fact that some of us used to
walk part of the way to church and then to ride the rest of the
way when overtaken by others who would take our place afoot.
Usually this was connected with horseback riding. The incident,
however, is rather confusedly indicated. It was followed, however,
by an interesting characterization of my father as " an
interested listener but took objections as he saw fit. He never
took the pulpit for a final place of authority." This was perfectly
correct. He did his own thinking even when he confined it to
orthodoxy. Immediately after delivering this message Mrs.
Chenoweth came out of the trance and just as she became normal
she asked if I knew anything about an Andrew. This name was
very relevant to the incident of going to church as described. This
man lived not very far from the church to which we used to go
in the manner indicated and had been involved in important
domestic troubles which my father as a member of the Session
in the church had to help settle. My mother knew the facts well.
He and his place might well be in the mental picture of going to
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