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Incipient Mediumship. 83
written the name, was spring and then he saw rocks and spoke of
them as referring to a place. I thought of Nantasket Beach which
Dr. Hodgson frequented in the summer, where there were rocks
projecting from the water at places. The percipient asked if he
was trying to get me. I replied, No, and he asked,if the place was
New York or here. I replied Here. He asked me if I had two
names in mind and I replied that I had not. He struggled further
to get an interpretation, but could not succeed. He then asked me
to let him try it over with another sheet of paper. I discarded the
one I was using.
At once he got an hallucination of a Pig or Hog, and wanted to
know if this meant anything to me. I saw that the word Hog
consisted of three letters of the name I had written, as I have had
it now and then through Mrs. Chenoweth, and simply told him to go
ahead, without admitting anything. He then asked me' if he could
ask one question and I said, Yes. He asked me if I liked or disliked
the person, and I answered that I liked him. Then he asked if the
person was stout or slim and I replied that he was fairly stout,
being more so than the percipient and a larger man. Then I was
asked if I knew anything o£ his eating habits and my reply was
that I did somewhat know them. He enquired if he was fond of
pork and I replied that I did not know, tho I did know he was
forbidden by Imperator to eat it, but the reference to it was a
natural suggestion of the apparition. I was further asked if he was
an overeater and I replied that he was not. Then he remarked that
he did not see good things about the person, later developments
showing that this atso was a suggestion of the word Hog. There
was then a long pause and he saw a broom, and asked me if it was
myself and I said, No. He repeated the previous idea by saying he
saw the poorest surroundings around this person. He then said he
got a name about Pig or Hog and added the question whether I
knew such a person. I said, No, and he asked if he dealt in any
business connected with Hogs or Pigs. I said, No, and he asked if it
represented in any way his disposition and I said, No. He further
asked if I had chosen this as a special fellow for the occasion and
I said, No, again. Then he wanted to know i£ I knew him in his
youth and, No, was the answer, and he wanted to know if the
person dealt in hogs when young and, No, was the answer. Asked
if I was his associate I said, Yes.
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