10 MAY 1946, Page 14

Premonitions Two strange examples have been brought to me of

dogs crying in obvious grief on the eve of the death of their master, and as explanation a "sixth sense " has been involved. Such an explanation carries us no further ; but it is as good as certain that some animals, perhaps wild birds and dogs above others, possess senses utterly unknown to us. The strangest example of coincidence known to me occurred at a Norfolk farm. An invalid listened with deep ioy to a thrush that sang from a fir-branch close to the bedroom window. On the morning of the woman'', death the thrush was found stone dead under the favourite perch.