The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-11


genuine, and she went further into
her revelations.
'Wance was lookin' out of this
same wfnder, an a queen of the air
came out Of the heavens ridin' on q
cloud. Oh, she was the most beauti-
fully made woman ever saw, with a
stride on her like queen. She had q
short skirt on her, and her calves
were lovely, and around her waist was
a sash with loose knot in it for Z
dagger, an the dagger raised in her
right hand-an' a crown upon her
head"
"And did she look angry?"
Indeed she didn't. A beautiful face
she had, an she come straight for this
winder, an when she was almost be-
fore it I put up my hands to my eyes,
for thought that If she was coming
| out of the other space and was the
first she met here she might do harm
to me, and twas well not to look at
her-and when I opened my eyes
again she was gone. Oh, never will
see so finely made woman again:
the calves of her beautiful legs and
the arm raised high above her head
like queen"
Margaret stood looking out of the
window at the mountain opposite, and
| said nothing for fear she would stop
| talking
After a few moments she went on:
IVAN day saw an elephant over on
the mountain side, an him filling his
trunk with water for long journey
oh, it's nanny the thing 1 see, but
don't mind if I never see them, only
they come to me-"
Filling ones trunk with water for a
long journey would not appeal to 4
drummer, but this flippant thought I
did not extend to Margaret. Perhaps
she would not have understood, as
| drummers are bagmen on the other
side. That is they are bagmen in
| books In hotels they are commercial
men.
Margaret was not yet through telling
| me the things she had seen. was
told that there were some people that
she would not talk to on occult sub
| jects, fearing their badinage, but her
| sincerity was so evident that l could
not have joked with her on the subject
if had thought of doing so.
"Wance I saw the present King Ed.
ward, an him about to be crowned,
! an he was in the heavens lying on a
bed, and his wife standing near,
dressed in dress with short sleeves
an point lace on them, an said to
me master (Margaret was living in
service), Sure he'll not be crowned
this time
"An' that very evening the news
came that the king was i'll, and he was
not crowned that time at all. An the
| pitcher in the papers afterWard
showed the queen in point lace as l
had seen her.
Afterward I talked to the gentleman
for whom this ancient woman kept
house, and he said there was no end
to the queer things she had seen. He
told me that once she saw in "the
heavens" a funeral cortege issuing
from smallish house, with big, black
horses, plumed and draped, and draw
ing a hearse, and in it either the pope
or a queen. Some one high up"
Margaret said.
That evening came the news of the
death of Queen Victoria.
Of course this is merely" second
sight, but if you don't believe in such
things you don't feel like scoffing when
people see visions that come true
| l was unfortunate enough not to
meet a Galway woman, an ignorant
| peasant, who saw vision that shaped
itself around a ruined castle.
She said to my informant Zone of
the leaders in the Gaelic revivaD that
while she was looking at the castle
one day a band of young gentlemen
on horseback and strangely dressed
came riding up to the castle, and in
the windows of it were many hand
some women, gaily dressed and with
their hair brushed up from their fore
heads, and they were laughing and
talking And when the young horse
! men came to the ditch that was around
the castle a platform that was laid
against the wall was let down by
chains, and over the bridge thus made
the gay young men rode and joined
the chattering ladies.
| This was a woman who would not
have heard of moats and drawbridges.
and but little of the castle remained
save the four walls. She had seen a
vision-so my informant, woman of
forceful intellect, told me-and l be.
lieved it then-and half believe it
now. If one has visions why not see
them? / wish l might myself
But it is very hard for the traveller
to get at these revelations. The ma.
tives are shy of strangers who, like as
not, do not believe in fairies-neyer
having seen Tinker Bell-and they
will not talk.
But for my part, hope the time
will come when it will be proved be.
yond a doubt that there are fairies
and if the revelation ever does mani.
fest itself at all, doubling Thomases
and the rest, am sure that their
habitat will prove to be Ireland.
And when they are proved to exist
remember that l said l believed in
them.
Copyright, 1907, by w. q. ChapmanJ