’II.—­One afternoon I was sitting beside a young lady whom I had never seen or heard of before.  She asked if she might look into my crystal, and while she did so I happened to look over her shoulder and saw a ship tossing on a very heavy choppy sea, although land was still visible in the dim distance.  That vanished, and, as suddenly, a little house appeared with five or six (I forget now the exact number I then counted) steps leading up to the door.  On the second step stood an old man reading a newspaper.  In front of the house was a field of thick stubbly grass where some lambs, I was going to say, but they were more like very small sheep.. were grazing.

’When the scene vanished, the young lady told me I had vividly described a spot in Shetland where she and her mother were soon going to spend a few weeks.’

I heard of this case from Miss Angus within a day or two of its occurrence, and it was then confirmed to me, verbally, by the other lady.  She again confirms it (December 21, 1897).  Both ladies had hitherto been perfect strangers to each other.  The old man was the schoolmaster, apparently.  In her MS., Miss Angus writes ‘Skye,’ but at the time both she and the other lady said Shetland (which I have restored).  In Shetland the sheep, like the ponies, are small.  Fortuitous coincidence, of course, may be invoked.  The next account is by another lady, say Miss Rose.

’III.—­Writes Miss Rose—­My first experience of crystal gazing was not a pleasant one, as will be seen from the following which I now relate as exactly as I can remember.  I asked my friend, Miss Angus, to allow me to look in her crystal, and, after doing so for a short time, gave up, saying it was very unsatisfactory, as, although I saw a room with a bright fire in it and a bed all curtained and people coming and going, I could not make out who they were, so I returned the crystal to Miss Angus, with the request that she might look for me.  She said at once, “I see a bed with a man in it looking very ill and a lady in black beside it.”  Without saying any more Miss Angus still kept looking, and, after some time, I asked to have one more look, and on her passing the ball back to me, I received quite a shock, for there, perfectly clearly in a bright light, I saw stretched out in bed an old man apparently dead; for a few minutes I could not look, and on doing so once more there appeared a lady in black and out of dense darkness a long black object was being carried and it stopped before a dark opening overhung with rocks.  At the time I saw this I was staying with cousins, and it was a Friday evening.  On Sunday we heard of the death of the father-in-law of one of my cousins; of course I knew the old gentleman was very ill, but my thoughts were not in the least about him when looking in the crystal.  I may also say I did not recognise in the features of the dead man those of the old gentleman whose death I mention.  On looking again on Sunday, I once more saw the curtained bed and some people.’