In his left hand he held a wooden slate, and there the boy read: Most humbly I beg you, Though voice I may lack: Come drop a penny, do; But lift my hat!

Let's see," he continued, taking up the slate: "I appear to have three boys' names down already'Vance,' 'Mugford,' and 'Trevanock.'

For example, if you have two tenants at the station, the farmers who deal with the new man must use their carts, each coming separately for the small load a horse can take up Redmire bank, while Bell's trailer, after bringing down the slate, would go back empty.

If you are fortunate enough to survive, you will be heroes, and all your differences will be wiped off the slate.

what does he do?" "Why, it seems that he works at picking slate, in Burnham's own breaker, and lives with one Bachelor Billy, a simple-minded old fellow, without a family, who took the boy in when he was abandoned by the circus.

The Medium then placed both slates upon her lap, and partially under the table.

III Some years later, as I looked out of my window one dull November day, the only cheerful thing I saw was the red cap of a messenger who was examining the slate that hung on a wall opposite my hotel.

When the slate is held under the table, knees and feet and clothing exert no deleterious effect, but the gaze of a human eye is fatal to all Spiritual manifestation; although to one of our number, on three occasions, a pocket mirror, carefully adjusted, unknown to the Medium, gave back the reflection of fingers, which were clearly not Spiritual, opening the slates and writing the answer.

When the sounds indicating the writing process had ceased, I endeavored to pull the slate away from under the table, but the Medium resisted my effort, and by powerful exertion jerked the slate out toward himself.

As he brought it out, the Medium turned the slate over and knocked it on his knee, and in that way crushed it to pieces.

He laid the slate back upon the table.

If he is sincerely in earnest in trying to clean the slate, I have only respect for the effort.

There were a number of books and small ornamental toys which had been given hima drawing slate with pencils, colored chalks, a small box of colors, some little plates which he had colored, in his own untaught stylea commenced copy of the hymn, "I know that my Redeemer liveth" an unfinished letter to his grandpapa, and some torn leaves which he had found with passages of scripture upon thema copy of the "lines on the death of an only son."

His father also bought him a nice new slate.

He flushed or frowned or winced no more at that than he did when she once more fairly emptied her satchel and, quite as if they had been Nancy and the Artful Dodger, or some nefarious pair of that sort, talking things over in the manner of Oliver Twist, revealed to him the fondness of her view that, could she but have produced a cleaner slate, she might by this time have pulled it off with Mr. French.

In broad daylight, a slate perfectly clean on both sides was, with a small fragment of slate pencil, held under a leaf of a small ordinary table around which we were seated; the fingers of the juggler's right hand pressed the slate tight against the underside of the leaf, while the thumb completed the pressure, and remained in full view while clasping the leaf of the table.

The excitement of the moment seemed to have wiped out the events of the last few months like writing off a slate.

After beating about the bush for a while he said: "My fate just now seems very unpropitious; when may I expect better times?" Gobardhan covered a slate with mysterious calculations and, after poring over them for ten or fifteen minutes, he looked up with the remark:"Your luck is really atrocious and has been so for more than three months.

NOTE 3.The writing did not seem to have been done by drawing the slate over a pencil at the time that the scratching was heard, for the slate was partly in view, and though it moved somewhat, it did not then move enough to make, for example, a line the whole length of the slate, as was done in one instance.

They have broken your slate, I know; And the glad wild ways Of your school-girl days Are things of the long ago; But life and love will soon come by, There!

So anxious, however, was our Acting Chairman that the experiment should prove successful, that, undeterred by this failure, he carefully sealed up a second slate, and placed it in the hands of the same Medium, with renewed adjurations to put forth all her Spiritualistic strength.

As we had previously seen prepared slates similarly placed we kept a sharp watch on these slates.

Politicians came there to concoct their plans for coming campaigns, to fix their slates and to devise means for grasping with eager hands the spoils of government.

At our last séance with him we noticed two slates which were not with the other slates on the small table behind him, but were on the floor resting against the leg of that table, and within easy reach of his hand as he sat at the larger table.

When a question is written on the slate by a sitter, equal dexterity to that used in substituting the prepared slate, or even greater, is demanded of the Medium, in reading the question and in writing the answer.