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     Voices Not Our Own



   1      Many peculiar circumstances and events connected
     with my childhood throng the chambers of memory.
   3  For some twelve months, when I was about eight years
     old, I repeatedly heard a voice, calling me distinctly by
     name, three times, in an ascending scale. I thought this
   6  was my mother's voice, and sometimes went to her, be-
     seeching her to tell me what she wanted. Her answer was
     always, "Nothing, child! What do you mean?" Then
   9  I would say, "Mother, who did call me? I heard some-
     body call Mary, three times!" This continued until I
     grew discouraged, and my mother was perplexed and
  12  anxious.
         One day, when my cousin, Mehitable Huntoon, was
     visiting us, and I sat in a little chair by her side, in the
  15  same room with grandmother,--the call again came, so
     loud that Mehitable heard it, though I had ceased to
     notice it. Greatly surprised, my cousin turned to me and
  18  said, "Your mother is calling you!" but I answered not,
     till again the same call was thrice repeated. Mehitable
     then said sharply, "Why don't you go? your mother is
  21  calling you!" I then left the room, went to my mother,
     and once more asked her if she had summoned me? She
     answered as always before. Then I earnestly declared
  24  my cousin had heard the voice, and said that mother

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