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Rh living with Mrs. Tilton she taught a class of children, holding the sessions in a small building, once used as a shop, on the Tilton place. After a few weeks' trial she gave it up. A little later she repeated the experiment, but with the same result. Although Mrs. Glover was later to have a "college" of her own, and to be its president and sole instructor, teaching was assuredly not her vocation in these early Tilton days. Perhaps a dozen of her Tilton pupils are still living, and they are fond of relating anecdotes of the days when they went to school to Mrs. Glover. They all remember that the teacher required the class to march around the room singing the following refrain:

Mrs. Glover began now to enjoy considerable local fame on account of her susceptibility to mesmeric influence, and her clairvoyant powers. She had developed a habit of falling into trances. Often, in the course of a social call, she would close her eyes and sink into a state of apparent unconsciousness, during which she could describe scenes and events. The curious and superstitious began to seek her advice while she was in