The report, erroneous as it was in its conclusions, contained so much significant truth that Mrs. Fish was at first staggered by its purport. But in March, 1851, she wrote again to the press a lengthy letter, in which she feebly attempted to counteract the effect of the doctor's opinion, and incidentally made some grave admissions. Referring to the fact that whenever the "mediums" were kept in constrained positions there were no "manifestations," she made this remarkable admission: "_It is true that when our feet were placed on cushions stuffed with shavings, and resting on our heels, there were no sounds heard, and that sounds were heard when our feet were resting on the floor_; and it is just as true that if our friendly spirits retired when they witnessed such harsh proceedings on the part of our persecutors, it was not in our power to detain them." Then she remarks that certain things happened _after the medical gentlemen left_: "Our feet were held from the floor by Dr. Gray and Mr. Clark, in presence of the whole committee, on the evening of the investigation made by the medical gentlemen (after they left); and the sounds were distinctly heard, which was allowed by the committee to be a far more satisfactory test, as they could distinctly hear the sounds under the feet, and feel the floor _jar_ while our feet were held nearly or quite a foot from the floor." About this time, a suspicion that the "raps" were made by use of the toes, first found expression, but it never seems to have been followed up to the point of verification. Indeed, the secret seems to have been kept absolutely for forty years, and was only revealed by the lips of Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane. I cannot refrain from quoting in this place an incident from the record of the common enemy, which further illustrates the imbecile audacity with which they parade their abominable fraud before the eyes of sensible persons. At a séance, in which wonderous things were done under a table, around which the company including Mrs. Fish and one of her sisters were closely seated, one, Mr. Stringham, apparently a doubter, asked: "May I leave the table while the others remain, that I may look and see the bells ringing?" The "spirits" answered: "What do you think we require you to sit close to the table for?" And the veracious writer adds: "_When spirits make these physical demonstrations, they are compelled to assume shapes that human eyes must not look upon._" ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !