Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-03-17
From Howitt's Country Year Book.
The Dutch Fisherman'S Wife.

ig5 From Howitt's Country Yearbook.
sl' The Dutch Fisherman's Wife.
The following singular narrative wa.
kindly communicated to me by a lady o
Tyne: D e. = 70
A dreadful storm ragged for several day.
on the coast of Holland. One night, du
ring It's continuance, the wife Of fisher
man, who lived in hut on the shor g, woke
her husband, saving, that she had fright.
iul dream, in which she had seen a wreck
not Far from the shore, and that even then
she fancied she could hear the cries ofdis-
tress, The husband listened, but could
perceive nothing but The raging of the
storm, and the laundering ofthe pillows up
on the shore. Hetherefore urged his wife
TO sleep again, treating it merely as the
excitement Of frightful dream.
The wife, who had in vain urged her
husband 10 take his boat, to ascertain. at
all events, whether wreck really were
iE the situation she had dreamed Of, efier
some time composed herself to sleep, and
again dreamed precisely us before. Again
she We ke her husband, and told him her
dream. describing 10 him exactly the spot
where the wreck appeared 10 lie, and the
miserable perishipg state Of the few sursi.
vors, whose cries still seemed 10 ring in
her ears. ~ 20 7@' '.55s 'ss~
The husband, who had no inclination
10 brave all the horrors Of that stormy
night in his boat, merely on the strength
Of his wife's dream, positively refused, and
Treated it all as mere fancy, caused by
The tumult of the storm. The wife, on
The contrary, on whose mind the. dream
had made the impression of absolute truth,
and who was woman of great resolution
and courage, and quite competent to the
management Of a boat-as many of these
fshermen's wives Undetermined 10 60
out BY herself, to rescue these unfortunate
wre,ches, who, she was convinced, stood
in such need Of help. The man, how.
ever, either shamed by her courage, or
unwilling that she should peril herself
alohe 10 such hazardous attempt, and
finding every effort 10 alter her purpose
vain, consented 10 accompany her.. The
boat, therefore, was launched, she direct,
ing according to her dream, the course
which they should steer. Az' '-[ 1'
Before long, they discovered that the
dream was really true. AT the pom,
where she had stated lay the wreck. with
several human beings fastened upon it-as
far as can reccollect, about ,en.--some
dead, and the others in the most dreadful
stale Of deslitntlon and hunger, and con-
sequently, reduced TO such a degree Of
weakness, that their voices we're scarcely
audible above whisper; SO that the cries
Of distress. which she seemed to hear, did
not proceed from them. $50 '7.@f.! zei
The few survivors were taken by the
fisherman and his wife into their boat,and
conveyed TO Their hut, where such assis.
lance was given them as their small means
could afford, but which suficed until better
aid could be obtained. 5'' ,s.Sa
The shipwrecked vessel was the BRITISH
Queen; the captain, whose name was
Granger. was unfortunately one of the
dead. a'. <t-'i -. = 7s' 5=-Es,f
One Of the sailors who was saved, when
Ae was able to continue his voyage, was
brought to my fathers house, under very
peculiar circumstances. AT that time, the
pressgangs we're the pests of our seaport
towns; and this poor fellow, being in oan-
ger Of being taken by one ofthem, was Sc
creted for some time in garret in our
house indeed, until another ship could be
found for him. '.E#
But enough of what the old Friends call
ed these Providences, for one winters
evening. Still more extraordinary, per.
haps, and indeed the most extraordinary
cases Of the kind, are those recorded in the
lives Of two of the most eminently pious
men of recent times-those of Doctor bod.
dridge, and the late DR.. Adam Clarke
Doctor Doddridge relates that, being acci-
IDENTIFY driven to seek refuge from storm,
at the house of a gentleman who was o
stranger 10 him, and staying all night
there, discovered, through the medium Of a
dream the missing writings Of the gentle
mans estate, without which, the gentle.
man was in, danger of losing the property.
And The son Of Doctor Adam Clarke relates
the most singular dream, with all its cir
cumstances, as drempt on the same night
by Doctor Clarke, then in the Isle of Man,
and by his wife, then at home, and which
induced the doctor to return home shortly
before his deeease. The son was told the
dream by his father, walking on the shore
Of the Isle Of Man, and on their immedi-
ate return, leaving his father for the night
in Liverpool, and Fastening home to ans
nounce his coming the next day, and 10
prevent surprise, was met at the door by
his mother, in great alarm, and received
from her precisely the same dream, and oil
its particulars, which had impressed her
with the belief that her husband was dead
or would soon die-as he did. But. as al
ready said, we will here poke the fire, ane
brighten the winler evening nook with .
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