And yet, you say, these innocent, unoffending--and, I say, martyred--animals are to have no future, no compensation. Monstrous! Absurd! It is an effrontery to common sense, philosophy--anything, everything. It is a damned lie, damned bigotry, damned nonsense. The whole animal world will live again; and it will be man--spoilt, presumptuous, degenerate man--who will not participate in another life, unless he very much improves. Think well over this,--you who preach the gospel of man's pre-eminence;--you who prate of God and know nothing whatsoever about Him! The horse, dog, cat,--even the wild animals, whose vices, perchance, pale beside your own, may go to Heaven before you. The Supreme Architect is neither a Nero, nor a Stuart, nor a clown. He will recompense all who deserve recompense, be they great or small--biped or quadruped. It is to testify to a future existence for animals and to create a wider interest in it that I have undertaken to compile this book; and my object, I think, can best be achieved in my own way, the way of the investigator of haunted places. The mere fact that there are manifestations of "dead" people (pardon the paradox) proves some kind of life after death for human beings; and happily the same proof is available with regard a future life for animals; indeed there are as many animal phantasms as human--perhaps more; hence, if the human being lives again, so do his dumb friends. Be comforted then, you who love your pets, and have been kind to them. You will see them all again, on the soft undying pasture lands of your Elysium and theirs. Be warned, you--you who have despised animals, and have been cruel to them. Who knows but that, in your future life, you may be as they are now--in subjection? * * * * * My task in writing this book has been considerably lightened by the extreme courtesy and kindness of Mr. Shirley, Mr. Eveleigh Nash, and the Proprietors of the _Review of Reviews_, in allowing me to make use of extracts and quotations from their most valuable works. ELLIOTT O'DONNELL. CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I CATS PAGE The Black Cat of the Old Manor House, Oxenby--Correspondence _re_ Cat Phantasms--The Headless Cat of No. ----, Lower Seedley Road, Seedley, Manchester--The Cat on the Post--Mystic Properties of Cats 3 CHAPTER II DOGS The Case of James Durham--The Grey Dog of ---- House, Birmingham--The Dog in the Cupboard--How the Ghost of a Dog saved Life--A Precentor's Adventure--Phantom Dog seen on Souter Fell--The Jumping Ghost--Dogs seen before a Death--A Dog scared by a Canine Ghost--The Phantom Dachshund of W---- Street, London, W.--An ALL Hallow Eve Ghost--The Strange Disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Dance--Phantasms of Living Dogs--The Yellow Dog of K---- University--National Ghosts in the form of Dogs--The Mauthe Doog--Spectral Hounds 57 CHAPTER III HORSES AND THE UNKNOWN