A WEIRD STORY FROM FRANCE.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 120, 17 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WEIRD STORY FROM FRANCE.

One of the most wonderful stories of the transmigration of soufe ever told comes from a seaport town in, France, where seven persons — of good intelligence and a reputation for truth — swear upon their honour that a dog spoke to them inteLigibJiy. Ten years ago, according to their testimony, a mariner named Ke'rbec, who had always been, a firm believer in the transmigration, of the human soul to the body of an inferior being, told his wife that after he died he would, return to- her in the guise of some domestic pet. Four years ago a strange dog wandered into the house and remained there, being well taken care of by the family. Lately Widow Kerbac, her three grown children, and three neighbours, including a sceptical schoolmaster, were spending the evening together at the house, chatting pleasantly, when suddenly the dog, crouching away in a dark corner, began to moan piteously. Every one thought that the animal was dreaming, but presently he rose on his hind legs, and spoke distinctly, in a faraway, unnatural voice, these words — "Adieu, wife; and children; adieu, friends." Then he fell stone dead. Nothing can shake the conviction of the witnesses of this scene that the dog really spoke. The schoolmaster even asserts that he saw the animal's jaws move as he uttered his uncanny farewell.