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300 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE1514. '^AYcll, friend, wc return our regards to you for <strong>the</strong> interest youhave manifested in our presence and performance; we now take ourleave. Farewell. Kino."At Kooxs's, Thursday, June 21.1515. AVe have much more <strong>of</strong> a performance than usual, and one highlysatisfactory. Among o<strong>the</strong>r things, after <strong>the</strong>y had finished playing a tunc,Mr. Schenick, who sat next to me, and who plays <strong>the</strong> violin very well,said, " King, won't you hand me <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r fiddle ?" It was taken up andhanded to liim over my head, thumbing <strong>the</strong> strings as it passed.'^ Yes,"it said, '-I will give you <strong>the</strong> fiddle; you do not want <strong>the</strong> bow, I suppose.""Oh, yes," said Schenick, " I want <strong>the</strong> bow, too." The horn said, " Can'tyou get along without it?" Schenick answered, " I can't play very wellwith my fingers." Then <strong>the</strong> bow was handed to him, <strong>the</strong> horn named atune, and both fiddles began to play, accompanied by <strong>the</strong> drums and <strong>the</strong>accordeon, and a number <strong>of</strong> voices sang, something like human voices.1516. Then <strong>the</strong> tamborine was played with much <strong>spirit</strong>, and passedrapidly around <strong>the</strong> room. At <strong>the</strong> same time it made stops in front <strong>of</strong> aperson, touched <strong>the</strong>m gently on <strong>the</strong> shoulder, head, or somewhere else,playing all <strong>the</strong> while ; <strong>the</strong>n passed to ano<strong>the</strong>r, and so on. It passed me,and dropped into my wife's lap. It <strong>the</strong>n flew over Van Sickle's head,made a great flourish, lit on it, and began to press down ; and Van says," Bear down; I can hold you up." He <strong>the</strong>n said <strong>the</strong>re was <strong>the</strong> weight <strong>of</strong>a large man put on his head; it also passed to a number <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs, andpressed down on <strong>the</strong>ir heads. Mr. Koons <strong>the</strong>n asked him to lay <strong>the</strong> tamborineon my head, which it did immediately, bearing down, I should think,with a weight <strong>of</strong> twenty pounds : I raised up my hand and took hold <strong>of</strong>it, when it started up, and I held on as fast as I dared for fear <strong>of</strong> breaking<strong>the</strong> tamborine; it <strong>the</strong>n passed around and came to my wife, and pressedgently against her head. This, she said, she mentally requested it to do,as she did not want it to bear down hard on her.1517. Mr. Koons <strong>the</strong>n said, "King, it is very warm here; won't youtake Mrs. Gage's fan and fan us V But before he had finished speaking,<strong>the</strong> tamborine began to fly around <strong>the</strong> room like lightning, breathing a strongcurrent <strong>of</strong> wind, and fanning all in <strong>the</strong> house. Then <strong>the</strong> phosphorus wastaken up and darted around <strong>the</strong> room like flakes <strong>of</strong> lightning, and a handbegan to develop. We talked with <strong>the</strong> voice while this process was goingon, and tried to urge our <strong>spirit</strong> friends to write a communication for us.When <strong>the</strong> hand was formed, it passed around <strong>the</strong> room and shook hands ortouched <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> many <strong>of</strong> us. It took hold <strong>of</strong> my hand, and <strong>the</strong>n <strong>of</strong>my wife's. AYe both felt <strong>the</strong> shape <strong>of</strong> a hand distinctly. It <strong>the</strong>n got somepaper and a pencil, and laying <strong>the</strong> paper on <strong>the</strong> table, right in front <strong>of</strong> us,began to write with great rapidity ; covered one side <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sheet ; turnedit over again, wrote five lines, signed it, filled <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> page with

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