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Had he ever been a spectator of those phenomena?
Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of cha-
rades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited
with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon,
seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Miz-
rach, the east.
He remembered the initial paraphenomena?
More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical
clocks at various points, avine music, the isolated tread of
an early wayfarer, the visible diffusion of the light of an in-
visible luminous body, the first golden limb of the resurgent
sun perceptible low on the horizon.
Did he remain?
With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the gar-
den, reentering the passage, reclosing the door. With brief
suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs,
reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and re-
entered.
What suddenly arrested his ingress?
The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cra-
nium came into contact with a solid timber angle where,
an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a second later, a
painful sensation was located in consequence of antecedent
sensations transmitted and registered.
Describe the alterations effected in the disposition of the
articles of furniture.
A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated
from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly
furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently