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After the music, writing on cards, and many other things had been gone through with, it {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|was}} was announced that the ring test would be given. A large iron ring, strong enough to draw a loaded wagon, was thrown out and examined by those present. Mr. Eddy told the audience that the battery would have to be changed now, by Mr. Peebles grasping his (Mr. Eddy’s) right hand with his (Mr. Peebles’s) right hand, and his left with his left, thus forming a cross, he also explained that one side of him would become negative, the other positive ; one side cold as ice, the other naturally warm. Before this change takes place, however, he always goes into a trance. He would not be able to bear the pain were it otherwise. At the {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|time the}} change takes place, one would think {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|from}} his {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|looks}} and actions that he would be literally torn in two. His body shakes as though it was being wrenched by machinary. At this juncture the ring was slipped around his arm and passed down over the clenched hands on to Mr. {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|…}} where in was seen by all. Mr. {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|…}} said that he held the medium’s hands as {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|hardly}} as he could, and that he saw the hand that put the ring on Horatio’s arm, and knew that it was not Horation’s, “for,” he said {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|jokingly, Horatio}}’s hands are dirty, while the hand of {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|…}} clean and white.” Mr. Eddy had been making fires, &c. (they have no servants and can keep none.) The ring cannot be put on {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|…}} first being sundered.

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Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1874