her, "Yes, you are taking Jim's place."

_Nov. 9._ During the night she is reported to have varied
between stiffness with mutism and a more relaxed state.
Once, the nurse found her with tears, saying "I want to go
down the hall to my sister--to the river," and a short time
later with fright: "Is that my mother?" Again she said: "Oh
dear, I wish this boat would stop--stop it--where are we
going?" In the forenoon she was quiet and unresponsive. In
the afternoon she said in a somewhat perplexed way, "We
were in a ship and we were 'most drowned." (When was that?)
"Day before yesterday it must have been"--Again she said in
the same manner: "It was like water. I was going down. I
could hear a lot of things." She claimed this happened
"to-day." "I saw all the people in here, it was all full
of water," "I have been lying here a long time--do you
remember the time I was under the ground and it seemed full
of water and every one got drowned and a sharp thing struck
me?" "I was out in a ship and I went down there in a
coffin." When asked whether she had been frightened at such
times, she said: "No, I didn't seem to be, I just lay
there." She also said: "the water rushed in," and when
asked why she put up her arms, she said, "I did it to save
the ship."

_Nov. 10._ She is still fairly free. She said that when she
was on the ship things looked changed, "the picture over
there looked like a saint, the beds looked queer." (How do
things look now?) "All right." (The picture too?) "The same
as when I was going down into a dark hole." When asked
later in the day where she was, she said, "In the Pope's
house, Uncle Edward is it?" but after a short time she
added, "It is Ward's Island, isn't it?"

_Nov. 11._ Inactive, inaccessible, but for the most part
not rigid.

_Nov. 14._ Varies between mutism with resistance and more
relaxed inactivity. To-day lies in a position repeatedly
assumed by her, namely, on her stomach with head raised,
resistive towards any interference, immobile face, totally
inaccessible.

_Nov. 15._ Freer. She said: "One day I was in a coffin,
that's the day I went to Heaven." She also said she used to
see "the crucifix hanging there" (on the ceiling)--"not now
but