CHAPTER XXXI.

MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS (_Continued_) 421 Crowd of Spirits made Visible by Lightning--Scarcely Credible but True--A Game of Euchre--Margaret's Dream--Mistaken Names Corrected by Spirits--An Unwilling Convert made Grateful and Happy--A Spirit Knows better than the Postmaster--Opening of a Combination Lock--A Visitor Magnetized into a Medium Himself--Curious Story about a Mutilated Limb--Disturbance in the Troup Street Cottage--A Caution against Cruelty to Orphan Children--Mrs. Hopper's Mysterious End--"Touch Samantha"--"I felt my Handkercher Tied Tighter every Minit"--"No Brimstone yet"--Kitchen Work by Night--'Sich a Gittin' up Stairs'--The Death of Isaac T. Hopper--William M. Thackeray--"Witch Stories"--George Thompson--A Child's Letter--Extracts from