INTERVIEW WITH HOOKEY WALKER.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 764, 10 May 1877, Page 2

INTERVIEW WITH HOOKEY WALKER.

Hearing of the famous trance medium, I resolved to interview him, and spend half-an-hour m the company of the ghosts. 1 found him m a ; kind ofoabinni, surrounded by ssulls and crossbones, wigs, burnt cork, patent calves, glass eyes, and other machinery used'in the spirit business;- After T had introduced myself : to the Medium, he'said : "- ' My friend, I have ju's'S beeri enjoying half-an-hour of sweet .converse with my friend Adum.' . Doctor : Adam ! What's his other name? ; '• ' ■•<■; ■.-. -:■.':■ ;--;>} Medium : .. Other .name 1, Why,:' my friend, I never knew him W any other ' name.' " •'■''''"' Doctor: D'ye ; mean' the chap that ; married .Eve ? .... Medium : The same/ my friend. ;■ ■ ! Doctor : Does. he ever bring his missus with' him? ■ i . &■■ > The Medium here give a slight cou*h, and replied: Well, lie hWno'fryefc dbueso ; but I'll ask him to the next, time he calls. .-•.;■_' -..\ ,• .- f ..... , j Doctor : Can't you trotlhim out now ? Medium/ : JSTo,, my friead, the condi-' tions- a.in't exactly favourable. ; Doctor : Well. lam uqrry ; .for -that, because 1 wanted to asli the old lady to explain all abouc ; tfait .'preuous fapple business — v ? | " Of man's first obedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste ■■••■■'■•.■■■•. r Brought death into the world, and all our woe." Medium,: I see that you hay a a taßte for poetry. ' • - Doctor : You bet. I've got' yards of original poetry of my own manufacture at home. Do you do anything m that line ? Medium : Often, my friend j but always under the influence of .Byron, Burns, Homer, Virgil, .or some other spirit poet. Doctor : You might sing us a specimen right away. Medium : The conditions isn't favourable. Doctor : Well, try something else. Here the Medium suddsnly threw hia head over the back of the chair, and appeared to bo going into a faint. 1 immediately seized a bucket of water, and was about to throw the contents over him, when he recovered, and explained that I here was nothing the matter. Ho was only going into the trance state. Than ha gave a shiver or two, shut one eye, drow m his breath, and subsided into a gentle slumber. He raised one hand suddenly and struck me m the eye. Doctor : Look here, Mister Medium ! Don't you play off any of your larka oh me. ... Medium : Friead, the subject of our discourse this evening is ' W hat is teryuth ?' It is a conglomeration of infinite facts conjunctively with other facts. What is ter-yuth ? You may read it m the Zendavesta, m Gonfuciu3, m the Koran, and m election speeches. Teryuth. is the- universal totality and essential entity of self-exiftent and realistic facts embodied m science and disembodied m the universe. Doctor: Couldn't you make it just a little more clear ? Medium : The conditions isn't favourable. Doctor : Could you trot out the spirit of Tom Johnson ? Medium : The condib— Doctor : Oh, blow the conditions ! I want to ask Tom why ha didn't stump up thai £5 he owed me before he left this vale of tears. ' Medium : The conditions ain't favour, able. Doctor : Can you inform me whether the spirit of Bill Jones is on the rampage as he used to be down here ? ' Medium': 'Our friend William iShappv. Doctor : Then he*3 screwed, as nsual. Has he had any rows with the old woman up there ? Medium : He 13 married, to another spirit bride. Doctor •• That's" like Bill. He always had kinder Mormon tendenoios. What's the name of Mrs Jones No 2 ? Medinai - The conditions isn't favourable. Doctor: Has Bill seen anything o' Biggies since he vveat to the spirit land ? Medium : Often. Doctor: Wasn't thera an all-firad fight ? Medium : The conditions i3n't favohr-' able. Doctor : Ask Joe Sprigg3 whether he takes any interest m worldly things, and whether he ever visits the little room behind the bar m the old place ? Medium : He's looking at you now. Doctor : That's mighty old. Medium : Why, my friend ? . , Doctor : Because Joe was as blind as a la 7.I a7. Medium : The conditions isn't favourable. ' Doctor : Dook here, Mr Medium, its my opinion that you'ra about one of the wnrest impoitc.s that I've eeen. You're a bigger fraud thau wooden nutmegs and glass shirt-buttons. You've £0*: some fellow to write you a lot of RrandUoqußnt nonsense which you've learned by heart, aud you spout a piecj of this or that to fit any subject. Go hence ! Get fice to a nunnery ! ! go ! ! ! Hera the Mediuii awoke, rubbad his eyes, and said c Where am I ?' Doctor : Well, I'll tell you, and that without the aid of any spirits. You aro on the road to B">me g*ol. That's whore you are. You are m a fair w.iy to devote

a fe«r yewa 1 practica. study to Hugh Miller's ♦Testimony of the Rooks,' uoleas you pull up, and try some other track. oo flamag^i Jgrabbed and fled from thmfoenft^^npßn¥^> Doctors dose" m fch> iA,uokK^" r Star. M ,