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Show Lang on Table-Tipping I waa once laying my hands, atone, en a little table which spun about lbs room, writes Andrew tang In liar pcr'a Magatlne No doubt 1 moved It, but I did so "automatically." I dkl not, eontdously, exert any force. I sslil! "Ask the tsble a qmaton," lvl a lady remarked ' Where are the watches 7 The table then titled, the others used the alphabet In the ordi nary way. I did not know what wai tilted out, but they told me that the message was, 'The watches are In Prank's pocket In the children's room." I asked ' What watches? ' aad the lady said. I gave two to Frank lo take to the watch maker, and be does not know what became of them." "No more do I, ' I said, and thought no moro about It frank waa a boy, u nephew ot the lady I scarcely knew hi in by sight Two months later, when 1 waa In France-, Wank a father, wbo had I'teii present at Ibe table tilting, wrote to tell me that I "waa the dovll I The watches bad Just been found lu an old greatcoat ot I'rauk's, In a drawer In the children's room which waa not a room In the houto where! tho tnMo was mi well Inspired. In-spired. Nothing else of thu tort ever hnppenet) to ine. It was nn "ntitomn-tltm" "ntitomn-tltm" 1 did not know what tho table ta-ble "said" till I was told, and ot the I watches 1 knew nothing nt nil. I aim ply do not understand the case, but "spirits" did mil even pritend lo bo mixed up tn IL Tho least Inconcdv able payable explanation I that Frank, who was at school "wired ' on to me, without knowing It, a fact which lis bad forgotten, anil lhat I, without knowing It, made Ihe table tilt out the answer Frank at that lime was n queer visionary vis-ionary hoy, a 'sensitive ' but to do all this wss relber out ot his llm The skeptical theory would bo that I-rank, having heard the si ry. and adedent ally come upon tho lost watrlns put them In the place where tho labia said they we ri , and the same with In tent to deceive" Hut I did not oven know that there was a room In bis father's house called ' the children's room" |