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MODERN SPIRITISM
door, but could get no reply. A little later she
knocked again, without getting any response. She
then turned the handle and opened the door, and saw
the Baptist minister lying awake in bed and smiling.
Something new and strange in his face alarmed
her, and she went out, closing the door, and told the
cook. The latter was an experienced married woman
and used to emergencies, and declared she would
soon find out what it was; so the two returned and
entered the bedroom. The Baptist minister still
retained his fixed smile, but did not attempt to
answer any of the queries as to how he felt, if there
was any pain, what he was smiling at, etc.
The Cook's Diagnosis
The cook, evidently a close observer, then noticed
a little
fluid trickling from the corner of his mouth,
and when she smiled at him he began making
a low noise, described, I believe, by the initiated as
"gurgling."
"Bless his dear heart," cried the cook, in an
uneasy ecstasy, "Why, he's a baby; look at him
dribbling. Anyhow we will soon see."
A little tea and bread and butter had already been
brought in, but nothing would induce the infantminister
to look at them.
The cook went out, and returned with a spoon
and some sweetened milk in a saucer. She extemporised
a bit and began feeding him in bed. He
waved his arms about and kicked his legs in
ecstasy, and smiled still more as he took spoonful
after spoonful.
Cook, however, delighted with her new charge,