"One of the children was sent into an adjoining room, the door of which was closed. The committee then thought of some object in the house and wrote the name down on paper. The strictest silence was observed. We then all silently thought of the name of the thing selected. In a few seconds the door of the adjoining room opened, and the child would appear _generally with the object selected_. No one was allowed to leave the room after the object had been fixed upon; no communication with the child was conceivable, as her place was often changed. Further, the only instructions given to the child were to fetch some object in the house that we would fix upon and would keep in mind to the exclusion of all other ideas. In this way we wrote down, among other things, a hairbrush--it was brought; an orange--it was brought; a wine-glass--it was brought; an apple--it was brought," etc., etc. The report to the Society sums up the following results: Three hundred and eighty-two trials were made in the series. In the test of naming the chosen letters of the alphabet, cards, and numbers of two figures, the chances against the girl were 21 to 1, 51 to 1, and 89 to 1, respectively. In the case of stating chosen surnames the odds against her were very much in excess of the figures just named. In the cases of the experiments of naming chosen cards it was calculated that a mere "guesser," according to the law of probability, would be able to correctly name _but seven and one-third_ out of a total of the three hundred and eighty-two trials. The actual results obtained by the child were as follows: On the first attempt, _one hundred and twenty-seven_; on the second attempt, fifty-six additional; and on the third attempt, _nineteen additional_--making a grand total of two hundred and two successes _out of a possible three hundred and eighty-two_! On one occasion _five cards straight running_ were successfully named on a first trial. The mathematical chances of a mere "guess" doing this feat, under the Law of Average, or Probabilities, are estimated at over _a million to one against the chance_. And this was not merely an isolated, exceptional case, for there were other "long runs"; for instance, there were two cases in which runs of _eight straight consecutive successes_ were scored, once with names, and once with cards. In the case of the eight consecutive cards it has been figured that the chances against the girl would figure up at least 140,000,000 to 1, according to the Law of Average and Probabilities. To understand just what this means it may help you if you will think that the feat was like picking out one chosen man in a population of one hundred and forty millions, nearly double the population of the United States. And yet there are people who would dismiss matters like this with the remark, "mere coincidence"!