The Shasta courier., 1866-04-07

| of the ground more elevated than the res,
where she stopped, and planting her foot
upon a certain SPOT said that she was going
to relate curious dream she had had the
previous night.
She dreamed. she said, first that she was
lying in the cabin of the yacht sick almost
unto death; that her husband and sister
standing by seemed. by their actions and
gestures. to imagine that she was dead but
though she was all this time conscious Of
what was taking place, yet she was utterly
unable to move hand or foot, or to make
any sound to attract their attention; in the
second part of her dream she seehed to be
carried on mems shoulders, still perfectly
conscious, along the road they had just
travcrsed, that she passed bv their aid into
the cemetery, and that the men deposited
their burden on that very spot. where she
then stood; grave had been dug, apparent
ly for her, she supposed, and she was bur
led, no it seemed to ner in her dream, alive
but motionless and power.ess to help herself
in any way. The horror of her situation, as
she was being lowered into the earth seemed
to give her strength. and in the act of striv
| ing to cry out she awoke; what seemed
50 curious tn her was, that though she had
! never seen the burial ground before, or the
road that led to it. yet, when she came to
visit them the day after her dream, she
found that the reality was exactly like the
dream"
We'll but" interrupted. 'you haven t
told us anything yet that"
/ = Excuse me" replied our hostess, 8 but
if you will do me the favor of waiting till l
have finished my story you will find you have
no reason to complain.
L4- g. L. ~ho1
! Mary for her evident belief in her dream,
and ascribed the whole circumstance to in
digestion they did not, however, stay much
longer in the cemetery, but returned to the
yacht.
Two days afterwards, and on the evening
before that on which they proposed leaving
| Gibraltar, Mary Livingston was suddenly
taken ill ; doctor was at once sent for.
who pronounced her attack to be slight one
of the cholera, assuring her friends at the
same time that they need not be under any
apprehension of danger. Next day, how
ever, her symptoms changed for the worse,
and before evening it was evident that she
was sinking fast, and that no hopes could
be entertained of her recovery. She died
during the night. Her husband. as you may
imagine. was overcome with grief, but he
had to stit1e his feelings, and settle all things
connected with her funeral, which was
obliged to take place on the evening of the
very day after she died.
All, as | was told after wards, happened
according to that dream of hers she was
carried along that steep road and her grave
had been dug on the very spot here but a
few days ago she had stood before them full
IF life ana beauty but strange to say. and
almost incredible. neither her husband nor
sister remembered the circumstance of her
relating her dream to them and it was not
until some six or seven months afterwards,
that one evening in the twilight of their
Yorkshire home, the memory OF the stroll!
through the burial ground and the event
connected with it flashed across the mind of
the widowed husband. Remnrse at the
thought of its being now all too late was his
| first feeling. and then a. irrepressible desire
| seized him-a longing to see if his darling's
dream had come true, and if she had, in
reality been buried alive. As fast as it was
possible for him to do so, he hurried to
Gibraltar; it was with some difficulty that
he obtained permission to have the ground
| opened, and when he had succeeded he found
| that his worst fears had been realized there
was no doubt left in his mind that his wife
had recovered consciousness after she had
been supposed by all to be dead. for the
body was turned partly on one side, as if
with the effort of trying to free itself from
the icy grasp of the tomb. From the date of
that discovery he has never ceased to re.
proach himself for being in some part the
cause of her death but he has never ceased
to wonder how it was that the recollection of
that dream of hers passed so quickly from
his mind, and was not revived till SO long
| afterwards.
Her grave, he told me. is marked by
white cross of marble. with the initials NJ.
| L. on it, and the date of her death.'
| The tale of our hostess was finished and
as she ended, the memory of that grave with
its wreath of flowers and the bleak grave.
yard came into my mind, and made the
probability of the story more apparent to
me. | have told the tale as it was told to
me for myself believe it to be true; for
my readers they must decide for themselves.
The names. of course, have been altered.
as, for aught know to the contrary. some of
the actors in that curious dream are living
still.