light was
continuously burning; and he could not understand the
affair, not recognizing the footsteps. When the steps had
drawn very near the bed, he heard a great sigh, which he at
once recognized as that of his grandmother, whom he had left
in good health at their home in Denmark. At the same instant
he also recognized the step, which was, indeed, the halting
and aged step of his grandmother. Looking at his watch,
which he had placed under his pillow, Vogler noted the exact
hour, and made a memorandum of it, for he at once surmised
that his grandmother might be dying at the very instant. At
a later day he received a letter from the paternal home,
announcing the sudden death of his grandmother, who
particularly cherished him above the other grandchildren.
This established the fact that her death occurred at the
very hour indicated. In this manner did the venerable woman
take leave of her grandson, who did not even know of her
illness.

EDWARD HAMBRO,
_Counselor-at-law, and Secretary of Public Works
in the City of Christiana._

Here, as may be seen, is a fact, observed as precisely as a scientific
experiment; and it might be added to those I have published in Urania.

I will adduce one more fact, which was observed very long ago, in
1784, by my great-grandfather, on my mother's side.

It occurred in Illand, a little village in the county of Bar, which
to-day belongs to the Department of Haute-Marne, not far from the
native place of both my maternal grandfather and myself. In childhood
I spent all my vacations there among the vine-planted hills, face to
face with gracious landscapes, amid forests alive with bird songs. The
house yet stands in which the incident happened. It is at the entrance
of the village, on the right, and is called the Chateau. One evening
my great-grandmother, on returning from her work in the fields,
perceived, by the huge chimney-corner (which can still be seen), her
brother, who had been dead several months. He was seated, and seemed
to be warming himself. "My God!" she exclaimed in affright, "it's our
dead Rolet!" and then she ran away. Her husband, entering in his turn,
also saw his brother-in-law sitting by the fireplace. At that critical
moment one of the farm hands uttered an oath, and the apparition
vanished.

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