Such anecdotes somehow do not commend themselves to the belief even ofpeople who can believe a good deal.But "the spirits of the living," as the Highlanders say, have surelyas good a chance to knock, or appear at a distance, as the spirits ofthe dead. To be sure, the living do not know (unless they are makinga scientific experiment) what trouble they are giving on theseoccasions, but one can only infer, like St. Augustine, that probablythe dead don't know it either.Thus,
