Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, [electronic ...

300 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE1514. '^AYcll, friend, wc return our regards to you for the 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 of a performance than usual, and one highlysatisfactory. Among other things, after they had finished playing a tunc,Mr. Schenick, who sat next to me, and who plays the violin very well,said, " King, won't you hand me the other fiddle ?" It was taken up andhanded to liim over my head, thumbing the strings as it passed.'^ Yes,"it said, '-I will give you the fiddle; you do not want the bow, I suppose.""Oh, yes," said Schenick, " I want the bow, too." The horn said, " Can'tyou get along without it?" Schenick answered, " I can't play very wellwith my fingers." Then the bow was handed to him, the horn named atune, and both fiddles began to play, accompanied by the drums and theaccordeon, and a number of voices sang, something like human voices.1516. Then the tamborine was played with much spirit, and passedrapidly around the room. At the same time it made stops in front of aperson, touched them gently on the shoulder, head, or somewhere else,playing all the while ; then passed to another, and so on. It passed me,and dropped into my wife's lap. It then 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 then said there was the weight ofa large man put on his head; it also passed to a number of others, andpressed down on their heads. Mr. Koons then asked him to lay the tamborineon my head, which it did immediately, bearing down, I should think,with a weight of twenty pounds : I raised up my hand and took hold ofit, when it started up, and I held on as fast as I dared for fear of breakingthe tamborine; it then 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 then said, "King, it is very warm here; won't youtake Mrs. Gage's fan and fan us V But before he had finished speaking,the tamborine began to fly around the room like lightning, breathing a strongcurrent of wind, and fanning all in the house. Then the phosphorus wastaken up and darted around the room like flakes of lightning, and a handbegan to develop. We talked with the voice while this process was goingon, and tried to urge our spirit friends to write a communication for us.When the hand was formed, it passed around the room and shook hands ortouched the hands of many of us. It took hold of my hand, and then ofmy wife's. AYe both felt the shape of a hand distinctly. It then got somepaper and a pencil, and laying the paper on the table, right in front of us,began to write with great rapidity ; covered one side of the sheet ; turnedit over again, wrote five lines, signed it, filled the rest of the page with