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252 The Shapes that Dreams may take. paper how the event corresponded with my dream. My niece was born in Australia and I never saw her . . .” The record of the Australian journal ran as follows :— “Friday evening, January 11th. <A dreadful accident occurred in the neighbourhood of W resulting in the death of two women It appears they were driving in a spring cart . . . when they attempted to water their horse atadam . . . The dam was ten or twelve feet deep in one spot, and into this deep hole they must have inadvertently driven, for Mr. M’K , going to the dam some hours afterwards, discovered the spring cart and horse under the water, and two women’s hats floating on the surface . . .” The worthy Quakeress imagined that ‘considering our night is the Australian day,” she must have been “in sympathy with the sufferers at the time of their accident,” and hence her dream. But the editors of the Psychical Research Society shrewdly observe that she | reckoned the difference of time the wrong way. The time in England which corresponded with the accident was the early morning — of January 9th and so the dream which took place on the zzght of , January oth, must have followed the deaths by more than twelve hours. But the Quaker lady’s husband, in appending a2 note to his wife’s letter, unconsciously throws a singular light on this point—thus : ** As my wife’s niece did not live with her father, he was not told of the accident until the next morning.” This would be about twelve hours after the death, and about the 4 time the dream took place in England. Can it-be that the bereaved — father’s distress, perhaps the very cry of his agony, impressed them- — selves upon the calm surface of his sleeping sister’s mind? The last story we shall give is very curious and most — ' Its narrator is an accomplished lady, who has done some excellent f literary work, and is a member of an active and well-known philan- thropic family. She writes :— ‘** A servant, a Lincolnshire woman, has lived in our house for two, — years: and of her, whom IJ never see in the day, I dreamed, as por- | tentously as if her troubles were my own. ‘There is nothing remark- — able in this young woman’s character or experience. She is but an — ordinary, rather rough specimen of a village girl, quiet and pee able. ‘In my dream (day, month and year given) a long country lane| was before me, in this I walked with the Lincolnshire cook, without: speaking ; yet I knew that my companion was going with me as a SOrt | of escort to some errand of my own. ‘Then a face appeared overa: — hedge: asolemn, silent face, exactly resembling that of the one who silently moved beside me: the sternest suffering was impressed upon!” the plain, hard-lined countenance. From beside me, the countty — servant instantly departed to follow the warning, voiceless form through — the hedge into a little house. Only a long minute passed and the ‘4 ae ard Gomicsdooks.com