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58 CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OFfourth! how is that? arc you moving' backward ? couung down ?' 'No,'I am an adviser in the fourth.' 'Adviser ! what is that ? a sort of superintendentV' Yes.''Oh ! you arc in office, then ?' ' Yes,'*Do you getany pay? We pay well for such things liere.' 'Yes, I get pay.' 'Whatpay?''The pleasure of seeing those under lue progress.'265. "1 then said to the gentleman stranger, 'Sir, you have found yourmatch, if not your brother. I think I would own the relationship ;' and incontinuance I remarked, that this seemed to be a very bright, cheerfulspirit ; when there was written—' I am always laughing.'2GG. " My next remark was—' Natty, I should like to make your acquaintance.''Hand out your card ;' was the instant response. Findingno card in my pocket, I wrote, secretly, on a slip of paper—' Mr. AllenPutnam, Eustis St., Roxbury'—turned the paper over, placing the writingdown upon the table, kept my hand over the paper, and asked Natty tomake a copy. Instantly the medium's hand wrote—Mr. A. P., U. St. Rox.The writing on my paper had been seen by me alone, and I was lookingfor a copy in full, but received only abbreviations, and those of everyword, Eustis being reduced to the letter U.with him.This closed my first interview2G7. "Some weeks afterwiird, when he was forgotten, the medium'shand wrote, ' Mr. x\. P., U. St. Rox.—I have used your card.' 'Natty,'said I, ' as you left the earth when very young, I would like to know howyou learned the English language.' He answered, 'My mother knew it,I think; and asked, 'Will you let my mamma come?' 'Certainly, withpleasure.' And the following was written :268. "'My friend, you must not be angry with my darling boy. Itofttimes grieves me to have him, so pure, use such wild phrases. I amyour friend, as a soldier in the cause. Elizabeth Y.'269. " Very often this little bright spark comes out with something unexpected,amusing, or witty; but at all times he manifests a very markeddisposition to be obliging and kind.Once, when his communication seemedto be closed, I said, ' You are not going, Natty ?' ' Yes —gone—don't yousee the dust fly?' 'Where,' I asked, 'do you pick up such phrases?''Hear 'um.'270. " On another occasion he said, My ' friend, you must not put onYou must nota long face when you come to talk with supposed ghosts.believe all they tell you to. You must not go to the end of the world andjump off",because they tell you to.'271. " When once I said to him, ' How do you go to work. Natty, to usea medium's hand ?' He said, ' Why, you see, we just passes a chain oflight around the wrist, and that sets it to shaking. The next operation isto make it write, of course. Sometimes the words are allowed to passthrough the brains. We now have such a power over this medium, thatwe can make her shake awfully.' ' Try my wrist. Natty,' said a lady who