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 MENTAL TELEGRAPHY

came to my immediate vicinity, rang, stood there and waited, then entered and closed the door, and I did not see him and did not hear the door slam.

If he had slipped around the house in that interval and gone into the cellar he had time enough I should have written him up for the society, and magnified him, and gloated over him, and hurrahed about him, and thirty yoke of oxen could not have pulled the belief out of me that I was of the favored ones of the earth, and had seen a vision while wide awake.

Now how are you to tell when you are awake? What are you to go by ? People bite their fingers to find out. Why, you can do that in a dream.

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