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180 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
made and if a certain incident in it had been told it would have
been a striking bit of evidence. But I did not get this incident,
tho I asked for it. Then came a reference to cheese as follows:
I also want to know if you know about cheese. I mean cheese
made in a shed room and then carried to the cheese room to dry
upstairs. Do you recall how you children liked the curds and the
wherry, and how there was a division of it between you.
We made cheese in the woodshed and it was taken to the
house to dry, I think, in the attic of the old kitchen. \Ve children
were wild about the " curds and wherry " on these occasions.
My mother then referred to the well and the fact that the
water was " hard like a mineral ". It contained much lime and
iron sulphide. In the subliminal recovery she referred to an old
loom as in the attic where the cheese was kept. This was true
at one time, but I do Rot recall the fact personally. I learned
it by inquiry. ·
At the next sitting a long message came about poplar trees,
the bam, yokes, sleds, buckets connected with sugar making,
barrels and buildings, and making ready for sugar boiling, as
we called it at the time of "the last snows", as indicated in the
message. The scene was clearly located away from my home and
the name " Peter " in connection with it goes to prove this, as
it was the name of an old negro connected with my uncle's fann
near the original home of my mother in another county and
which was evidently the place in her mind, tho I never saw it
until long after her death. The articles described, except the
yokes, were all connected with sugar making and were very
natural for my mother to mention, as she was quite familiar with
the life connected with it. But I do not remember any of the
scenes that are evidently in mind, as they were connected with
a period long before I was born. We had no poplar trees on
our place. One existed on our neighobor's place and I do not
know whether there were any on the farm where my mother
was born. It is probable that there were. Reference was made
to oxen and this proves that the time was before I was born, as
we never had any on my father's farm. When I asked if any
one living could tell me about the place she had in mind, having
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