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86 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
if it was his own G. I said, Yes, and he understood me to mean
that it was his own handwriting which I said it was not so far as
I knew. The percipient replied that he himself never made a G
in that way. He then said he thought of a bird trying to do something.
Then came the following:
Shall I try to get the name?
(Yes.)
Capital L. Is that it?
(No.)
Is D right?
(No.)
[Pause.] Some one said cocoanut. There is a Ge [pause.]
Is that right?
(Yes.)
There are lots of Georges. Is there a change in the next letter?
(No.)
G eo .. . [pause.] Is that right?
(Yes.)
Do you want the last name?
(Yes.)
[Long pause.l The first letter IS hard to get. It looks like
Hell. It looks like H. Did I write it?
(No.)
Is the name Hare? H a m. Is that right?
(No.)
He has a hammer here. H a . . . b Is that right?
(No.)
[Pause.] Ham. They tell me only to say M and show me a
money sign. You said L didn't fit.
(Capital.)
H a 1 c . .. Lobster. Then took pencil and wrote two capital
L's on the pad. Then he said the young man had it and soon
uttered Hall which was what the young man was thinking of, having
caught what the name was.
Toward the last guessing will easily account for the success,
but it is not so easy to account for the "Geo" and "Ha" and the
letters L in this way. The young man could easily have guessed it
after I admitted certain things and so could Mr. Moriarty. He
Digitized by Goog I e