CHAPTER II.

Veracious Dreams. Past, Present and Future unknown Events " revealed ". Theory of " Mental Telegraphy " or ''Telepathy" fails to meet Dreams of the unknow- able Future. Dreams of unrecorded Past, how alone ihey can be corroborated. Queen Mary's Jewels. Story from Brierre de Boismont. Mr. Williams's Dream before Mr. PercevaVs Murder. Discrepancies of Evidence. Curious Story ofBude Kirk. Mr. Wil- liams's Version. Dream of a Rattlesnake. Discrep- ancies. Dream of tlie Red Lamp. " Illusions Hypnagogiques." The Scar in the Moustache. Dream of the Future. The Coral Sprigs. Anglo- Saxon Indifference. A Celtic Dream. The Satin Slippers. Waking Dreams. The Dead Shopman. Dreams in Swoons.
^ERHAPS nothing, not even a ghost, is so staggering to the powers of belief as a well-authenticated dream
^hich strikes the bull's eye of facts not known to the dreamer nor capable of being guessed by him.
[f the events beheld in the dream are far away ^n space, or are remote in time past, the puzzle is difficult enough. But if the events are still in the future, perhaps no kind of explanation except a mere " fluke " can even be suggested. Say that I dream of an event occurring at a distance, and
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that I record or act on my dream before it is corroborated. Suppose, too, that the event is not one which could be guessed, like the death of an invalid or the result of a race or of an election. This would be odd enough, but the facts of which I dreamed must have been present in the minds of living people. Now, if there is such a thing as ** mental telegraphy" or ''telepathy,"^ my mind, ii dream, may have " tapped " the minds of the peopl who knew the facts. We may not believe in " men- tal telegraphy," but we can imagine it as one of the unknown possibilities of nature. Again, if
1 What is now called "mental telegraphy " or " telepathy " is quit an old idea. Bacon calls it '• sympathy " between two distant mine sympathy so strong that one communicates with the other withou^ using the recognised channels of the senses. Izaak Walton explaii in the same way Dr. Donne's vision, in Paris, of his wife and dec child. •* If two lutes are strung to an exact harmony, and one struck, the other sounds," argues Walton. Two minds may be as harmoniously attuned and communicate each with each. Of course, in the case of the lutes there are actual vibrations, physical facts. But we know nothing of vibrations in the brain which can traverse space to another brain.
Many experiments have been made in consciously transferring thoughts or emotions from one mind to another. These are very liable to be vitiated by bad observation, collusion and other causes. Meanwhile, intercommunication between mind and mind without the aid of the recognised senses — a supposed process of " telepathy " — is a current explanation of the dreams in which knowledge is obtained that exists in the mind of another person, and of the delusion by virtue of which one person sees another who is perhaps dying, or in some other crisis, at a distance. The idea is popular. A poor High- land woman wrote to her son in Glasgow : ' * Don't be thinking too much of us, or I shall be seeing you some evening in the byre ". This is a simple expression of the hypothesis of ' ' telepathy " or " mental telegraphy ".
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V a letter of some historical person is later discovered which confirms the accuracy of my dream, we can at least conceive (though we need not believe) that the intelligence was telegraphed to my dreaming mind from the mind of a dead actor in, or witness of the historical scene, for the facts are unknown to living man. But even these wild guesses cannot cover a dream which correctly reveals events of the future ; events necessarily not known to any finite mind of the living or of the dead, and too full of detail for an explanation by aid of chance coincidence.
In face of these difficulties mankind has gone on believing in dreams of all three classes : dreams revealing the unknown present, the unknown past, and the unknown future. The judicious reasonably set them all aside as the results of fortuitous coinci- dence, or revived recollection, or of the illusions of a false memory, or of imposture, conscious or un- conscious. However, the stories continue to be told, and our business is with the stories.
Taking, first, dreams of the unknown past, we find a large modern collection of these attributed to a
lady named " Miss A ". They were waking
dreams representing obscure incidents of the past, and were later corroborated by records in books, newspapers and manuscripts. But as these books and papers existed, and were known to exist, before the occurrence of the visions, it is obvious that the matter of the visions may have been derived from the books and so forth, or at least, a sceptic will vastly
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prefer this explanation. What we need is a dream or vision of the unknown past, corroborated by a document not known to exist at the time when the vision took place and was recorded. Probably there is no such instance, but the following tale, pic- turesque in itself, has a kind of shadow of the only satisfactory sort of corroboration.
The author responsible for this yarn is Dr, Gregory, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. After studying for many years the real or alleged phenomena of what has been called mesmerism, or electro-biology, or hypno tism, Dr. Gregory published in 1851 his Letters t a Candid Inquirer on Animal Magnetism.
Though a F.R.S. and a Professor of Chemistry, the Doctor had no more idea of what constitutes evidence than a baby. He actually mixed up the Tyrone with the Lyttelton ghost story ! His legend of Queen Mary's jewels is derived from (i) the note- book, or (2) a letter containing, or professing to contain, extracts from the note-book, of a Major Buckley, an Anglo-Indian officer. This gentleman used to " magnetise " or hypnotise people, some of whom became clairvoyant, as if possessed of eyes acting as "double-patent-million magnifiers," per- meated by X rays.
"What follows is transcribed," says the Doctor, "from Major Buckley's note-book." We abridge the narrative. Major Buckley hypnotised a young officer, who, on November 15, 1845, fell into " a deeper state" of trance. Thence he awoke into a "clairvoyant" condition and said: —
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QUEEN MARY'S JEWELS.
" I have had a strange dream about your ring " " medalHon " of Anthony and Cleopatra) ; '* it
very valuable."
Major Buckley said it was worth £60, and put Ihe ring into his friend's hand.
*' It belonged to royalty."
'' In what country ? "
"I see Mary, Queen of Scots. It was given to her by a man, a foreigner, with other things from Italy. It came from Naples. It is not in the old setting. She wore it only once. The person who gave it to her was a musician."
The seer then " saw " the donor's signature, " Rizzio" . But Rizzio spelled his name Riccio ! The seer now copied on paper a writing which in his trance he saw on vellum. The design here en- graved (p. 32) is only from a rough copy of the seer's original drawing, which was made by Major Buckley.
" Here " (pointing to the middle) " I see a diamond cross." The smallest stone was above the size of one of four carats. " It " (the cross) " was worn out of sight by Mary. The vellum has been shown in the House of Lords." ^
"... The ring was taken off Mary's finger by a man in anger and jealousy : he threw it into the water. When he took it off, she was being carried in a kind of bed with curtains " (a litter).
^ Perhaps among such papers as the Casket Letters, exhibited to thfe Commission at Westminster, and " tabled " before the Scotch Privy Council-
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»Just before Rizzio's murder Mary was enceintCj d might well be carried in a litter, though she ually rode. The seer then had a view of Rizzio's murder, which he had probably read about.
Three weeks later, in another trance, the seer finished his design of the vellum. The words
A
M
De la Part
probably stand for a Marie, de la part de
The thistle heads and leaves in gold at the comers were a usual decoration of the period ; compare the ceiling of the room in Edinburgh Castle where James VI. was born, four months after Rizzio's murder. They also occur in docu- ments. Dr. Gregory conjectures that so valuable a present as a diamond cross may have been made not by Rizzio, but through Rizzio by the Pope.
It did not seem good to the doctor to consult Mary's lists of jewels, nor, if he had done so, would he have been any the wiser. In 1566, just before the birth of James VI., Mary had an inventory drawn up, and added the names of the persons to whom she bequeathed her treasures in case she died in child-bed. But this inventory, hidden among a mass of law-papers in the Record Office, was not discovered till 1854, nine years after the vision of 1845, and three after its publication by Dr. Gregory in 1851. Not till 1863 was the inventory of 1566,
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discovered in 1854, published for the Bannatyne Club by Dr. Joseph Robertson.
Turning to the inventory we read of a valuable present made by David Rizzio to Mary, a tortoise of rubies, vv^hich she kept till her death, for it appears in a list made after her execution at Fother- ingay. The murdered David Rizzio left a brothei Joseph. Him the queen made her secretary, and in her v^rill of 1566 mentions him thus : —
** A Josef, pour porter a celui qui je luy ay dit^, une emeraude emaille de blanc.
" A Josef, pour porter a celui qui je luy ai dit, doni il ranvoir quittance.
"Une bague garnye de vingt cinq diamens tant grands que petis."
Now the diamond cross seen by the young officer in 1845 was set with diamonds great and small, and was, in his opinion, a gift from or through Rizzio. "The queen wore it out of sight." Here in the inventory we have a hague (which may be a cross) of diamonds small and great, connected with a secret only known to Rizzio's brother and to the queen. It is " to be carried to one whose name the queen has spoken in her new secretary's ear " (Joseph's), " but dare not trust herself to write". "It would be idle now to seek to pry inta the mystery which was thus anxiously guarded," says Dr. Robertson, editor of the queen's inven- tories. The doctor knew nothing of the vision which, perhaps, so nearly pried into the mystery.
There is nothing like proof here, but there is just a presumption that the diamonds connected
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ith Rizzio, and secretly worn by the queen, seen the vision of 1845, are possibly the diamonds rhich, had Mary died in 1566, were to be carried Joseph Rizzio to a person whose name might lot safely be written.^
We now take a dream which apparently reveals a real fact occurring at a distance. It is translated from Brierre de Boismont's book, Des Halliicinations^ (Paris, 1845). "There are," says the learned author, "authentic dreams which have revealed an event occurring at the moment, or later." These he ex- plains by accidental coincidence, and then gives the following anecdote, as within his own intimate knowledge : —
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THE DEATHBED.
Miss C, a lady of excellent sense, religious but not bigoted, lived before her marriage in the house of her uncle D., a celebrated physician, and member of the Institute. Her mother at this time was seriously ill in the country. One night the girl dreamed that she saw her mother, pale and dying, and especially grieved at the absence of two of her children : one a cure in Spain, the other — her- self— in Paris. Next she heard her own Christian name called, "Charlotte!" and, in her dream, saw
^ To Joseph himself she bequeathed the ruby tortoise given to her by his brother. Probably the diamonds were not Rizzio's gift.
* Boismont was a distinguished physician and " Mad Doctor," or "Alienist ". He was also a Christian, and opposed a tendency, not uncommon in his time, as in ours, to regard all " hallucinations " as a proof of mental disease in the " hallucinated".
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the people about her mother bring in her own littl niece and god-child Charlotte from the next rooi The patient intimated by a sign that she did n want this Charlotte, but her daughter in Parij She displayed the deepest regret ; her countenanc changed, she fell back, and died.
Next day the melancholy of Mademoiselle attracted the attention of her uncle. She told hii her dream ; he pressed her to his heart, and admittec that her mother was dead.
i Some months later Mademoiselle C, when he uncle was absent, arranged his papers, which h( did not like any one to touch. Among these was a letter containing the story of her mother's deatl with all the details of her own dream, which had kept concealed lest they should impress h« too painfully.
Boismont is staggered by this circumstance, ani inclined to account for it by " still unknown relatioi in the moral and physical world ". ** Mental teh graphy," of course, would explain all, and ev( chance coincidence is perfectly conceivable.
The most commonly known of dreams prior t or simultaneous with an historical occurrence repre- sented in the vision, is Mr. Williams's dream of the murder of Mr. Perceval in the lobby of the House of Commons, May ii, 1812. Mr. Williams, of Scorrier House, near Redruth, in Cornwall, lived till 1841. He was interested in mines, and a man of substance. Unluckily the versions of his dream are full of discrepancies. It was first published, apparently, in The Times during the " silly season "
PERCEVAL'S MURDER. 3/
account is very minute, Mr. Williams dreamed of the murder thrice before 2 a.m. on the night of I May II. He told Mrs. Williams, and was so dis- I turbed that he rose and dressed at two in the I morning. He went to Falmouth next day (May 12), and told the tale to every one he knew. On the evening of the 13th he told it to Mr. and Mrs. Tucker (his married daughter) of Tremanton Castle, j Mr. Williams only knew that the chancellor was shot; Mr. Tucker said it must be the Chancellor of the Exchequer. From the description he recog- nised Mr. Perceval, with whom he was at enmity. Mr. Williams had never been inside the House of Commons. As they talked, Mr. William's son galloped up from Truro with news of the murder, got from a traveller by coach. Six weeks later, Mr. Williams went to town, and in the House of Commons walked up to and recognised the scene of the various incidents in the murder.
So far The Times, in 1828. But two forms of a version of 1832 exist, one in a note to Mr. Walpole's Life of Perceval (1874), "an attested statement, drawn up and signed by Mr. Williams in the presence of the Rev. Thomas Fisher and Mr. Charles Prideaux Brune". Mr. Brune gave it to Mr. Walpole. With only verbal differences this variant corresponds to another signed by Mr. Wil- liams and given by him to his grandson, who gave it to Mr. Perceval's great-niece, by whom it was lent to the Society for Psychical Research.
These accounts differ toto ccelo from that in The
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Times of 1828. The dream is not of May 11, but "about" May 2 or 3. Mr. Williams is not a stranger to the House of Commons ; it is " a place well known to me". He is not ignorant of the name of the victim, but " understood that it was Mr. Perceval*'. He thinks of going to town to give warning. We hear nothing of Mr. Tucker. Mr. Williams does not verify his dream in the House, but from a drawing. A Mr. C. R. Fox, son of one to whom the dream was told before the event, was then a boy of fourteen, and sixty-one years later was sure that he himself heard of Mr. Williams's dream before the news of the murder arrived. After sixty years, however, the memory cannot be relied upon.
One very curious circumstance in connection with the assassination of Mr. Perceval has never been noticed. A rumour or report of the deed reached Bude Kirk, a village near Annan, on the night of Sunday, May 10, a day before the crime was com- mitted ! This was stated in the Dumfries and Galloway Courier , and copied in The Times of May 25. On May 28, the Perth Courier quotes the Dumfries paper, and adds that " the Rev. Mr. Yorstoun, minis- ter of Hoddam (06. 1833), has visited Bude Kirk and has obtained the most satisfactory proof of the rumour having existed " on May 10, but the rumour cannot be traced to its source. Mr. Yorstoun authorises the mention of his name. The Times of June 2 says that " the report is without foundation".
If Williams talked everywhere of his dream, on May 3, some garbled shape of it may conceivably
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have floated to Bude Kirk by May lo, and originated the rumour. Whoever started it would keep quiet when the real news arrived for fear of being im- plicated in a conspiracy as accessory before the fact. No trace of Mr. Williams's dream occurs in the contemporary London papers.
The best version of the dream to follow is pro- bably that signed by Mr. Williams himself in 1832.^
It may, of course, be argued by people who accept Mr. Williams's dream as a revelation of the future that it reached his mind from the purpose conceived in Bellingham's mind, by way of " mental tele- ^aphy".^
DREAM OF MR. PERCEVAL'S MURDER.
*' SuNDHiLL, December^ 1832.
" [Some account of a dream which occurred to John Williams, Esq., of Scorrier House, in the county of Cornwall, in the year 1812. Taken from his own mouth, and narrated by him at various times to several of his friends.]
" Being desired to write out the particulars of a remarkable dream which I had in the year 1812, before I do so I think it may be proper for me to say that at that time my attention was fully occu- pied with affairs of my own — the superintendence of some very extensive mines in Cornwall being entrusted to me. Thus I had no leisure to pay any attention to political matters, and hardly knew at that time who formed the administration of the
1 S.P.i^., v., 324. ^Ibid.,z2^.
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country. It was, therefore, scarcely possible that my own interest in the subject should have had any share in suggesting the circumstances which presented themselves to my imagination. It was, in truth, a subject which never occurred to my waking thoughts.
" My dream was as follows : —
"About the second or third day of May, 1812, I dreamed that I was in the lobby of the House of Commons (a place well known to me). A small man, dressed in a blue coat and a white waistcoat, entered, and immediately I saw a person whom 1 had observed on my first entrance, dressed in a snuff-coloured coat with metal buttons, take a pist( from under his coat and present it at the little ma| above-mentioned. The pistol was discharged, an^ the ball entered under the left breast of the persoi at whom it was directed. I saw the blood issi from the place where the ball had struck him, h8 countenance instantly altered, and he fell to the" ground. Upon inquiry who the sufferer might be, I was informed that he was the chancellor. I understood him to be Mr. Perceval, who was Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. I further saw the murderer laid hold of by several of the gentlemen in the room. Upon waking I told the particulars above related to my wife; she treated the matter lightly, and desired me to go to sleep, saying it was only a dream. I soon fell asleep again, and again the dream presented itself with precisely the same cir- cumstances. After waking a second time and stating the matter again to my wife, she only repeated her
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request that I would compose myself and dismiss the subject from my mind. Upon my falling asleep the third time, the same dream without any altera- tion was repeated, and I awoke, as on the former occasions, in great agitation. So much alarmed and impressed was I with the circumstanges above related, that I felt much doubt whether it was not my duty to take a journey to London and com- municate upon the subject with the party principally concerned. Upon this point I consulted with some friends whom I met on business at the Godolphin mine on the following day. After having stated to them the particulars of the dream itself and what were my own feelings in relation to it, they dis- suaded me from my purpose, saying I might expose myself to contempt and vexation, or be taken up as a fanatic. Upon this I said no more, but anxiously watched the newspapers every evening as the post arrived.
" On the evening of the 13th of May (as far as I recollect) no account of Mr. Perceval's death was in the newspapers, but my second son, returning from Truro, came in a hurried manner into the room where I was sitting and exclaimed : * 0 father, your dream has come true ! Mr. Perceval has been shot in the lobby of the House of Commons ; there is an account come from London to Truro written after the newspapers were printed.*
"The fact was Mr. Percival was assassinated on the evening of the nth.
" Some business soon after called me to London, and in one of the print-shops I saw a drawing for
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sale, representing the place and the circumstance which attended Mr. Perceval's death. I purchase it, and upon a careful examination I found it t coincide in all respects with the scene which ha passed through my imagination in the dream. The colours of the dresses, the buttons of the assassin*! coat, the white waistcoat of Mr. Perceval, the spot of blood upon it, the countenances and attitude of the parties present were exactly what I ha dreamed.
"The singularity of the case, when mentionec among my friends and acquaintances, naturally mad( it the subject of conversation in London, and i^ consequence my friend, the late Mr. Rennie, wj requested by some of the commissioners of th navy that they might be permitted to hear thi circumstances from myself. Two of them accord^ ingly met me at Mr. Rennie's house, and to thei I detailed at the time the particulars, then fresl in my memory, which form the subject of the aboi statement.
" I forbear to make any comment on the above narrative, further than to declare solemnly that it is a faithful account of facts as they actualh
occurred.
(Signed) "John Williams." ^
When we come to dreams of the future, great' historical examples are scarce indeed, that is, dreams respectably authenticated. We have to put up with curious trivialities. One has an odd feature.
"^Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. v., pp. 324. 325-
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THE RATTLESNAKE.
Dr. Kinsolving, of the Church of the Epiphany in Philadelphia, dreamed that he " came across a rattlesnake," which " when killed had two black- looking rattles and a peculiar projection of bone "from the tail, while the skin was unusually light in colour ". Next day, while walking with his brother, Dr. Kinsolving nearly trod on a rattlesnake, ** the ■same snake in every particular with the one I had had in my mind's eye". This would be very well, but Dr. Kinsolving's brother, who helped to kill the unlucky serpent, says '^he had a single rattle". The letters of these gentlemen were written without communication to each other. If Mr. Kinsolving is right, the real snake with one rattle was not the dream snake with two rattles. The brothers were in a snaky country, West Virginia.^
The following is trivial, but good. It is written by Mr. Alfred Cooper, and attested by the dreamer, "the Duchess of Hamilton.
THE RED LAMP.
Mr. Cooper says : " A fortnight before the death
of the late Earl of L in 1882, I called upon
the Duke of Hamilton, in Hill Street, to see him professionally. After I had finished seeing him, we went into the drawing-room, where the duchess was, and the duke said, * Oh, Cooper, how is the •earl?'
^ Proceedings, S.P.R., vol. xi., p. 495.
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" The duchess said, * What earl ? ' and on my
answering * Lord L / she replied : ' That is very
odd. I have had a most extraordinary vision. I went to bed, but after being in bed a short time, I was not exactly asleep, but thought I saw a scene as if from a play before me. The actors in it were
Lord L as if in a fit, with a man standing
over him with a red beard. He was by the side of a bath, over which a red lamp was distinctly shown.
" I then said : * I am attending Lord L at
present ; there is very little the matter with him ; he is not going to die ; he will be all right very soon'.
" Well he got better for a week and was nearly well, but at the end of six or seven days after this I was called to see him suddenly. He had in- flammation of both lungs.
" I called in Sir William Jenner, but in six days, he was a dead man. There were two male nurses attending on him ; one had been taken ill. Butj when I saw the other, the dream of the duchess! was exactly represented. He was standing near a bath over the earl, and strange to say, his beard was red. There was the bath with the red lamp over it. It is rather rare to find a bath with a red lamp over it, and this brought the story to my mind. . . ."
This account, written in 1888, has been revised by the late Duke of Manchester, father of the Duchess of Hamilton, who heard the vision from his daughter on the morning after she had seen it.
The duchess only knew the earJ by sight, and
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id not heard that he was ill. She knew she was iot asleep, for she opened her eyes to get rid of le vision, and, shutting them, saw the same thing ;ain.^
In fact, the "vision" was an illusion hypnagogique. Probably most readers know the procession of visions rhich sometimes crowd on the closed eyes just iefore sleep. ^ They commonly represent with vivid clearness unknown faces or places, occasionally known faces. The writer has seen his own in this way and has occasionally " opened his eyes to get rid of" the appearances. In his opinion the pic- tures are unconsciously constructed by the half- sleeping mind out of blurs of light or dark seen with closed eyes. Mr. Cooper's story would be more complete if he had said whether or not the earl, when visited by him, was in a chair as in the vision. But beds are not commonly found in bath- rooms.
THE SCAR IN THE MOUSTACHE.
This story was told to the writer by his old head-master, the Rev. Dr. Hodson, brother of Hod- son, of Hodson's Horse, a person whom I never heard make any other allusion to such topics. Dr. Hodson was staying with friends in Switzerland during the holidays. One morning, as he lay awake, he seemed to see into a room as if the wall of his bedroom had been cut out. In the room were a
^ Signed by Mr. Cooper and the Duchess of Hamilton. ' See Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty, p. gi.
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lady well known to him and a man whom he not know. The man's back was turned to looker-on. The scene vanished, and grew agai: Now the man faced Dr. Hodson ; the face wi unfamiliar, and had a deep white scar seaming the moustache. Dr. Hodson mentioned the circumstance to his friends, and thought little of it. He returned home, and, one day, in Perth station, met the lady at the book-stall. He went up to accost her, and was surprised by the uneasiness of her manner. A gentleman now joined them, with a deep white scar through his moustache. Dr. Hodson now recalled, what had slipped his memory, that the lady during his absence from Scotland had eloped with an officer, the man of the vision and the railway station. He did not say, or perhaps know, whether the elopement was prior to the kind of dream in Switzerland.
Here is a dream representing a future event, with details which could not be guessed beforehand.
THE CORAL SPRIGS.
Mrs. Weiss, of St. Louis, was in New York in January, 1881, attending a daughter, Mrs. C, who was about to have a child. She writes: —
" On Friday night (Jan. 21) I dreamed that my daughter's time came; that owing to some cause not clearly defined, we failed to get word to Mr. C.,. I who was to bring the doctor; that we sent for the nurse, who came ; that as the hours passed and neither Mr. C nor the doctor came we both
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fot frightened ; that at last I heard Mr. C. on the rtairs, and cried to him : * Oh, Chan, for heaven's iake get a doctor ! Ada may be confined at any loment'; that he rushed away, and I returned to le bedside of my daughter, who was in agony of lind and body; that suddenly I seemed to know rhat to do, . . . and that shortly after Mr. C. ime, bringing a tall young doctor, having brown jyes, dark hair, ruddy brun complexion, grey trousers and grey vest, and wearing a bright blue cravat, picked out with coral sprigs; the cravat attracted my attention particularly. The young doctor pro- nounced Mrs. C. properly attended to, and left."
Mrs. Weiss at breakfast told the dream to Mr.