[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ]
Sin,—Permit me under this heading to give you my own experience of something somewhat similar to what your cor- respondents write about. About three hundred yards from my father's house, in the county of Sutherland, there lived a shoemaker, George Mackay, who, at not very regular times, visited our house. His knock was quite familiar to all of us, but by-and-by we began to hear it before he himself arrived. Latterly, on its being heard, some one of the family would remark to the person about to answer it "You had better see if George has left home yet," and not infrequently the knock was heard before he had come many yards from his own house. I tested this on several occasions, because, being schoolmaster in the district, and sceptical on the matter of ghosts, &c., I wished to probe it to the bottom. But, both from my own experience and that of my brothers and sisters, I was constrained to admit that George's knock preceded his personal arrival. Can any of your readers give other in- stances of this kind ? My friend, Mr. W. A. Craigie, LL.D. Oxford, tells me that the belief in such "precursors" is entertained widely in Scandinavia.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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