The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-05-24
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THE REMARKABLE FUIFILLMENT or TWO
DREAMS.

a post cbaise, with single gentleman in
side II, drove up to a little inn on the ,
Pentland Firth, in the north of Scotland, !
where passengers who were going to cross /
to the Orkneys usually spent the night.
Mr.. Mac I. was the owner Of large /
estate, and an old house which had be- /
louged to his family for hundreds of years,
in the Mainland, or chief of the Orkney /
Islands, aud WAS now about to visit his |
1t was a clustering, stormy |
night, but that only made more pleasant /
the cigar and the glass of whisky and the /
cracking wood-fre by which Mac 7. sat |
chatting with the landlord, who was an !
old friend both of his father and himself,
and who was proud of entertaining the
young laird,' as he called him, with his |
widest tales of adventure on the sea. They
did not, however, sit late, for the Orkney
packet sailed very early in the morning,
and Mac T. soon found himself in his coy,
well-appointed little bedroom.
The wind was chanting a grand Bsr-
serkeT melody, and the sea was roaring
deep bass accompaniment Mac T. loved
those sounds, for they had often been the
lullaby of his childhood, and soon fell
asleep. For some hours he slept wi hout
an image or a thought reaching his mind
but. at length, when the morning was
glimmeriDg gray in the east,
STRANGE DREAM
came to trouble him. He dreamt that he
was in the ancient banqueting hall of his
old house, on the Mainland, sitting at the
head of Il very long table. The banqueting
hall was now in reality almost ruin, but
in his dream Mac L. saw it hung with
tapestry, and blazing with a hundred
lights. The table was well filed on both
sides, aud he thought he glanced curiously
down its length 20 see who the guests were.
As be looked he shuddered iB his dream.
Those who sat at the table with him were
al, his dead ancestors for many generations
back. He knew their faces and dresses
well from their portraits il the picture
gallery. Next to him sat his own father,
who had died about a year before. And
at The bottom of the table sat fair haired
man in the dress of skins, who was Morse
chieftain, the founder Of the family. IL
seemed tn him that he sat for some minutes
as if spell bound, while the spectres muir
INJURED together in low, hallow tones. At
length they all rose, and slowly, one by
one, in turns, left the hall. But before
they went, each one paused at the door,
and turning, raised his hand in a warning
attitude, fixed his eyes on Mac T. and
said in a deep voice, the word beware. y
THE sHIPwRECK.
''The packet starts in twenty minutes,
sir" cried loud voice at the door, rousiug
Mac T. suddenly from sleep. Confused at
| Ist, yet soon remembering where he was,
lie sprang out of bed and began hurriedly
to dress himself. Being a bad sailor, his
first glance was naturally enough at The
sea, close to which the inn stood. The
wind had risen IN the night. The waves
Numbered on the shore, anu the little Ork-
ney- packet was tossing up aud down like a
limpet shell. AS he GAzed, his strange
dream rose up vith sudden distinctness be-
fore Mac T. mind. lie was infected with
good deal of thorough Scotch superstition.
Besides he did not much like the look of
the sea, and so he resolved not to GO till
to morrow. That day The Orkney packet
was lost with every man ON board, and
Mac +. au1 his little wife, ~ho was left at
home with the babies, had to thank that
warning dream FOR his life. The other in
cident we have to tell is quite as singular.
ANOTHER CURIOUS CASE.
Many years ago the Rev. Mr. \. held a
small living in the widest part of Wes.
Somerset. The parish church stood on a
/ bleak hill side, and Mr.. \. who was a
! batchelor, lodged in the farm house close
! 10 it. Among his flock there was no one
! in whom the clergyman took more interest
| than in Mary, The pretty daughter of the
/ farmer, his landlord. When Mary was
about twenty, Mr.. n. was mnch troubled
4 by finding she bad formed an attachment
/ with Jack Townsend, the cieverest work
| man aud the most worthless fellow on the
! farm.
One autumn night the clergyman dreamt
! that Mary stood at his LedsIde aud cried
! ont I'm an imploIing voice. Come out on
! to the hill side" The impression left on
/ his mind on waking so distinct that,
! If he bad not known bis door WIS locked,
{ So that no one cOuld enter the room, he
would have thought Mary must have in
| reality been thsre. Feeling, however, suie
! that il was only n dream Ire carnPUsed him
! self ouce more to Sleep But scarcely had
! he closed his ewes WHEN Mary was again
there, calling TO him - come on the bill
/ side. Seven several times he tired To sleep,
/ aud seven times the phantom came back,
! always with the same cry. At length,
/ mastered by an almost irresistible impulse,
/ he rose dressed himself, and went out on
/ the hill lie walked some distance, but
/ could see nothing except :he heather-belis
waving i'm the moonlight, could hear moth
ing but distant sheep bell tinkling softly,
/ aud the stream warbliug below the valley.
/ lie was just going back, when suddenly
a shril cry reached him. seeming 10 come
/ from "A neighbOrIng cumbe. lluuying in
/ that direction, he saw at the bottom of the
! combe two figures, thuse Oi a man and Z
woman. apparently Struggling with each
! other As lie drew near, the man ran
! away and the woman fell To the ground.
When he came mp he found IT vas Mary.
She had only faiuted, aud he soon brought
her to herself. Then 10y degrees she con
fessed to him that her lover had persuaded
her to meet him that night in the cOmbe.
b ing;ng with her small sum of mUpex
which she had saved from eaTly-stfffIlhOOd
by laying by little glits--7Tiends and re
lations. and -ys4-~en according to custom
comIno8 among her class in that day, shC
-+-fSd kept in an old stocking instead of il
the bank. Townsend had promised I,
elope with her. aud marry her, aud as she
loved him, and her father would not ALLOW
the match, she had consented 10 go. Blu
when he met her. Townsend, instead of 60
ing away with her, had .ried to rub her q
her money. She had iesiSiezl, aud sirug
, gled with him. aud inst then Ehe clergy
man had come up aud the villain had rul
away. After that night Mr.. y. was a be
: lever in the providential nature of dreams
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