For my doubts it was clear I was soon to pay dear, To this point all her efforts were pitched, And I own it with shame, She has managed that same, For now I am fairly--_bewitched_. CHAPTER XII. BUFFALO. 1850-51. URGED TO RETURN TO NEW YORK--VISIT TO BUFFALO--ATTEMPT BY A PRETENDED FRIEND TO FRIGHTEN US AWAY--THUNDERBOLT FROM THE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER--THE "FEMALES"--KNEE-JOINT THEORY--OUR REPLY CHALLENGING INVESTIGATION OF IT--THE DOCTORS' DAY--MRS. PATCHEN'S PECULIARITY. We all returned to our home in Rochester, but immediately started for the old homestead (Arcadia, Wayne County), where for about a month we enjoyed the society of our dear friends to our hearts' content. After this it became necessary to go back to Rochester, where we received urgent letters from New York, insisting on our return to that city, now that we had had what our friends there thought a sufficient period of repose and holiday. These invitations we refused, whatever might be the conditions offered; but this soon brought upon us a visit of Judge Edmonds and others, _in person_, who insisted, in the name of all our friends, as well as in that of our "duty," that some of the family at least should return with him to New York. This finally led, after much persuasion and deliberation, to our consent that Katie, accompanied of course by mother, should do so, and Maggie remained with me at my house in Troup Street, Rochester. At New York mother and Katie were to reside successively with our principal friends in the great city. We left Rochester for Buffalo the 16th of December, 1850, at the earnest solicitation of many friends there. It was our intention on leaving home to be absent about two weeks, but, like the Spirits, we could not calculate our time. When we had been there about two weeks, we began to think of turning our steps homeward; but our friends would not consent to our leaving them so soon, as the crowded séances and the continued increasing interest seemed to demand our presence still longer. We remained, and soon found why we were detained. About this time two of the Buffalo doctors called on us, viz., Dr. C. B. Coventry and Dr. Charles A. Lee. To my certain knowledge, Dr. Austin Flint never appeared in our presence until after he had made the wonderful discovery of "knee-ology," which is fully explained hereafter. Dr. Coventry appeared gentlemanly at all times and places; but Dr. Lee proved himself to be a wily, deceitful man. He certainly professed, to us, to be greatly surprised at what he witnessed in our presence; and I was myself afterward surprised at the manner and tone of the subsequent attacks upon us in which he united.