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144 upstairs after table d'hôte, told my other daughter, Mrs. Wodehouse, what I had seen.

The next letter from home told me that Judy had gone out in the morning well, had apparently picked up some poison, as she was taken ill and died in half an hour; but I cannot say whether it was on the same day that I had seen her.

She was almost a human dog, so wonderfully intelligent and understanding, and devoted to me. 1em

Mrs. Bagot's daughter, Mrs. Wodehouse, sent to us a copy of the entries in her diary under the dates March 24 and 28, 1883.

1em (Copy of Diary.) March 24th, 1883. Easter Eve (Mentone). —"Drove with A. and picked anemones. Lovely bright day. But my head ached too much to enjoy it. Went to bed after tea and read Hettner's Renaissance. Mamma saw Judy's ghost at table d' hôte!"

March 28th, Wednesday (Monte Carlo).—"Mamma and A. came over for the day. Judy dead, poor old dear."

It will be seen that no exact correspondence is made out between the vision and the death; but it is clear that the apparition was seen before the news of the death was received. In this case it is not difficult to suppose that the agent may have been the person in whose charge the dog had been left. But to return for a moment to Case 39. It will be seen that Miss R. not only made no note of her experience but actually forgot all about it until she received the news of the death of W. As the vision had not been mentioned to any one we have no proof, beyond the percipient's word, for the