Here some interesting badgering. Miss Branly declined being kissed in the dark. Miss Turligood thought it would be very satisfactory, if she would, and couldn't see why any one should object to it. She (Miss Turligood) would willingly be kissed in the dark, or in the light, in furtherance of scientific investigation. Stellato suggested a compromise. "Might not the kissing be done through a medium?" At first the table thought it couldn't, but afterwards relented, and thought it might. "Would Pocahontas appoint that medium?" She would. "Should the alphabet be called?" It should not. "Would the table tip towards the medium indicated?" It could not be done. "Should somebody call over the names of all mediums present, and would the table tip at the right one?" Ah, that was it! "I suppose you and I have no share in this Gift Enterprise," whispered Colonel Prowley. "Order! order!" shouted Miss Turligood, glancing in our direction with great severity. "This general conversation cannot be permitted. We are about to have a most interesting manifestation.--Pocahontas, do you wish me to call over the names?" Pocahontas did not object. "Very well, then, you will tip when I come to the name of the medium through whom you consent to kiss Miss Sarah Branly?" Pocahontas certainly would. "Is it Mrs. Colfodder?" No reply. "Is it I, Eugenia Turligood?" No, it certainly was not. "Well, then, I suppose it must be Mr. Stellato!" Here the table was violently convulsed, as if somebody were pulling it very hard upon Mr. Stellato's side, and somebody else holding it with rigid firmness upon the other. "_Is_ it Mr. Stellato?" Convulsion repeated. "I don't think you stopped long enough at Mrs. Colfodder's name," interposed Miss Branly. "I am sure the table was going to move, if you had given it time." "Nothing easier than to try again," responded Miss Turligood. "Is it Mrs. Colfodder?" This time the table fairly sprang into the lap of the lady indicated. And so that worthy widow arose and saluted--or rather Pocahontas, through her mediumship, arose and saluted--Miss Sarah Branly. And the skeptic will please take notice that this extraordinary manifestation is neither enlarged nor magnified, but that it actually happened precisely as is here set down.