ult at this date
to get a statement from the stablemen, one of whom is
somewhere in England, but Lady C. will try to do so. She is
absolutely convinced that no one entered the stable. Had the
stablemen done so they would at once have helped the mare to
get up, and anyone else would have given the alarm. It seems
a direct case of telepathy from animal mind to human."

Lady C. afterwards sent me a statement from a former coachman; it is
this:--

"_31st December 1904_

"I was coachman at Castle F. at the time. Lady C. came to
the stables after luncheon as usual on a Sunday afternoon
with carrots and sugar for the horses. Kitty was then loose
in her box and quite well. I then went to my room over the
stables, the other stablemen being also upstairs, and to my
surprise, after half an hour or three-quarters of an hour
later, her ladyship, who had been to the garden, called me
and the other stablemen to come and help Kitty up, as she
was lying 'cast'[1] in her box. No one had gone into the
stable in the interval.

(Signed) "E. N."

[Footnote 1: This word is used by veterinary surgeons to describe the
state of a horse that has fallen down in its box in a stable and cannot
rise.]

Telepathy may possibly exist between the mind of an animal and that of a
human being and _vice versa_, but a sufficient number of cases have not
been collected to establish this as a fact.

PART II

FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY

I now come to another class of so-called thought transference--that
exhibited at public entertainments in which genuine telepathy plays no
part.

On the 25th November 1912 Miss Isabel Newton, the Secretary of the
Society for Psychical Research, and I attended the demonstration given
by Yoga [_sic_] Rama of his alleged occult powers at the "Little
Theatre," Adelphi.

Accounts had appeared in the public press of a previous private
performance given by this so-called Abyssinian Mystic, at which Sir John
Simon, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Anthony Hope had
assisted, and it was stated that Yoga Rama had been able to read the
thoughts of the Solicitor-General by supernormal means.

In order to demonstrate, in a public manner, the alleged occult power of
this "psychic," a stage performance was given at the "Little Theatre" on
the afterno