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the door and windows jarred very loud, and presently several distinct strokes, three by three, were struck.

From that night it never failed to give notice in much the same manner, against any signal misfortune or illness of any belonging to the family," writes Jack.
Once more, on 10th February, 1750, Emily (now Mrs.Harper) wrote to her brother John, "that wonderful thing called by us Jeffery, how certainly it calls on me against any extraordinary new affliction".
This is practically all the story of Old Jeffrey.

The explanations have been, trickery by servants (Priestley), contagious hallucinations (Coleridge), devilry (Southey), and trickery by Hetty Wesley (Dr.
Salmon, of Trinity College, Dublin).