- see any thing more of it. I searched the

room all over, and found nothing. There was a
dog lying on the hearth, who would have betrayed
great uneasiness had a cat been in the room. He
was perfectly quiet. In order to be quite certain,
however, I rang the bell, and sent ifor the two cats.
They were both found in the housekeeper's room.
The most superstitious person could now doubt no
longer as to the real character of all these illusory
appearances; and the ease is so complete, that I
hope there wiH be no renewal of them, symptomatic
as they of course are of a disordered state of the

body. I am sorry to say Mrs. as well as

myself forgot to try in time the experimentum
crucis on the cat. i

*' Mrs. — has naturally a morbidly sensi-
tive imagination, so strongly affecting her corporeal
impressions, that the story of any person having
•offered severe pain by acciaent or otherwise, will

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occasioDally prod ace acute twinges of pain in the
corresponding parts of her person. An account^
for instance, of the amputation of an arm, will pro-
duce an instantaneous and severe sense of pain in
her own arm, and so of other relations. She is sub-
jiect to talk in her sleep with great fluency, to re-
peat poetry very much at length, particularly when
unwell, and even to cap verses for half an hour to-
gether, never failing to quote lines beginning with
the final letter of the preceding, till her memory
is exhausted.
