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346 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
(Stick to it.)
[Pause.) all to country and to God. [Pause.] The strong
[relaxed hold on pencil, pause and Indian and seized pencil again.]
irony of fate to rush to the teeth of the world to be [groan]
tom asunder and be [distress.] spit [spat J forth like vomit from
a sickened stomach. [Pause.] Now too late to retreat. Surrender
or anni [pause and not read.) annihi ... [N. R.] anni ... [read
'annihilation' and not finished.] [Pause.]
I weep for the rash ... [Groans, 'Oh' and I put my hand on
head of medium a few moments.) Reichstag [pause] too hot headed
with no firm hold on the [Distress, Indian and French words, long
pause and a scrawl.]
Do you friend think my war policies brought such unbounded
assurance.
(I fear that they did. I am speaking with Count von Bismarck,
am I?)
Yes and his head is bowed in the dust his will has pased
[passed] into the minds of the Army and the policy of knowihg no
defeat brings disaster to mein country.
( Sie meiRen Ihre Vaterland.)
Jah, Jah mein friend. [sic]
( Ich verstehe.)
[Struggle to leeep control and distress. P. F. R.]
(Noch halten Sie. Es wird kommen.)
(Struggle and scrawls to keep control.] B [distress, and pause.)
Ein night . . . Ein nigcht . . . [struggle.] fatherland nein roesn
blume [N. R.f blume [Pause and P. F. R.]
(Stick to it.)
[Distress.] * * [scrawl made like a very small capital 'B ',
but no evidence that it was intended for this.]
(Hatten Sie. Die deutche Sprache wird das beste Zeichniss.)
[Pause.) Wsas icht .. ·. [pencil fell, medium raised her head
from the chair and groaned heavily. I held my hand on her brow
awhile and she sat back relaxed. Long pause and then face much
twisted with apparent pain.) [18]
18. The change of mind on Bismarck's part is as interesting a fact as
that of Napoleon; and his whole statement, especially with its mingling of
German, is beyond'Mrs. Chenoweth's normal knowledge. His query about the
consequences of his own policy is interesting tho we cannot say that it is
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