one being taken the first.  The house we then lived in looked down towards A——­ churchyard, which was about a quarter of a mile away.  From an upper window my sister and I saw two surpliced figures going out to meet the coffin, and said, ’Why, there are two clergy!’ having supposed that there would be only Mr. D——.  I, being short-sighted, used a telescope, and saw the two surplices showing between the people.  But when my brother returned he said, ’A strange thing has happened.  Mr. D——­ and Mr. W——­(curate of a neighbouring parish) took the far-off funeral.  I saw them both again at A——­, but when I went into the vestry I only saw Mr. W——.  I asked where Mr. D——­ was, and he replied that he had left immediately after the first funeral, as he had to go to Kilkenny, and that he (Mr. W——­) had come on alone to take the funeral at A——.’”

Here is a curious tale from the city of Limerick of a lady’s “double” being seen, with no consequent results.  It is sent by Mr. Richard Hogan as the personal experience of his sister, Mrs. Mary Murnane.  On Saturday, October 25, 1913, at half-past four o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. Hogan left the house in order to purchase some cigarettes.  A quarter of an hour afterwards Mrs. Murnane went down the town to do some business.  As she was walking down George Street she saw a group of four persons standing on the pavement engaged in conversation.  They were:  her brother, a Mr. O’S——­, and two ladies, a Miss P. O’D——­, and her sister, Miss M. O’D——.  She recognised the latter, as her face was partly turned towards her, and noted that she was dressed in a knitted coat, and light blue hat, while in her left hand she held a bag or purse; the other lady’s back was turned towards her.  As Mrs. Murnane was in a hurry to get her business done she determined to pass them by without being noticed, but a number of people coming in the opposite direction blocked the way, and compelled her to walk quite close to the group of four; but they were so intent on listening to what one lady was saying that they took no notice of her.  The speaker appeared to be Miss M. O’D——­, and, though Mrs. Murnane did not actually hear her speak as she passed her, yet from their attitudes the other three seemed to be listening to what she was saying, and she heard her laugh when right behind her—­not the laugh of her sister P.—­and the laugh was repeated after she had left the group a little behind.

So far there is nothing out of the common.  When Mrs. Murnane returned to her house about an hour later she found her brother Richard there before her.  She casually mentioned to him how she had passed him and his three companions on the pavement.  To which he replied that she was quite correct except in one point, namely that there were only three in the group, as M. O’D——­ was not present as she had not come to Limerick at all that day.  She then described to him the exact position each one of the four occupied, and