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Show Lang on Table - Tipping I was onco laying my hands, alono, on a little tnblo which spun about tho room, writes Androw Lang In liar-por's liar-por's Magazine No doubt I moved It, but I did ho "automatically." I did not, consciously, exert nny force. I said: "Ask tho tablo a question," and n lady remarked, "Whero aro tho watches?'' The table then tilted; tho others used the alphabet In tbo ordinary ordi-nary way. I did not know what was tilted out, but they told mo that tho message was, "Tho watches nro In Frank's pocket In tho children's room." I asked: "What watches?" and tho lady said. "I gavo two to Frank to take to tho watch maker, and ho docs not know what becatno of them." "No more do I," I said; nnd thought no moro nbout it. Frank was a boy, n nephew of tho lady. I scarcoly know him by sight. Two months later, when I was in France, Frank's father, who had hi en present at tho tablo tilting, wrote to tell mo that I "was tho devil"! Tho watches had Just been found In an old grcntcoat of Frank's, lu a drawer In tho children's room which was not a room In the houso whero tho tablo was so well Inspired. In-spired. Nothing cIbo of the sort over happened to me. It wns an "automatism." "automa-tism." I did not know what tho tablo ta-blo "said" till I was told, and of the watches I know nothing at all. I pimply pim-ply do not understand tho caso; but "spirits" did not oven pretend to be mixed up in It. Tho least lnconcclv-nblo lnconcclv-nblo psychic explanation Is that Frank, who wns at school, "wired" on to me, without knowing It, a fact which ho had forgotten, and that I, without knowing It, made tho tablo tilt out tho answer. Frank nt that tlmo was a queer, visionary vis-ionary boy, n "sensitive"; but to do all this was rather out of his lino. Tho skeptical theory would bo that Frank, laving heard tho btory, nnd aclcdent-ally aclcdent-ally como upon tho lost watches, pnt thorn lu tho placo whero tho tablo bald thoy were, "and Uio name with Intent In-tent to deceive." Hut I did not even know that thcro was a room In his father's houso called "the children's room." |