3/ j>, =THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1984 15 Hugh Roberston, Panda Associates The house on Belleville's John Street; heating stoves became increasingly functional and ornate in the nineteenth century. areas -- the early cedar beams Susannah Moodie conversed with beneath the house had rotted, the dead at seances. It was a fad creating a middle-aged sag in the which did not quickly disappear. Years later Prime Minister Wilcentre section. liam Lyon Mackenzie King continPerhaps the spirits are still ually communicated with his nearthere, as they were when other- est and dearest in the spirit world. wise sensible people such as law- Delia and -her father would have yer Andrew Buell, Delia and even found that perfectly reasonable. University of Toronto Press , X