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FOUND on A TREE.

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window-sill small, gold pencil, with
which he had beon writing. When no
returned i'll a few minutes, no pencil was
there. This appeared very strange to
him, for no one had entered the room
while he was away, SO he was completely
puzzled US to where it had 80 quickly
disappeared. The window was at the top
Of the house, 80 no one could have got II
that way. Next autumn, when the leaves
were of the trees. bright object was
seen hanging from the very highest
branch of large beech tree. With some
difficulty it was reached, and proved to
be the missing pencil, which had short
piece of black cord fastened to 1t. As
the trees about there were known to be a
favorite resort of magpies, it was thought
that one of them had snatched tho pencil
off the window sill, as they are we'll
known thieves of any shining objects /;
and most likely the cord had caught IN
tho branch and held, before the magpie
could convey it to his hiding place.
REVEALED BY DREAM.
Strange and unacoountable rs it may
appear. it is nevertheless fact that the
whereabouts of missing articles have
often been revealed by dreams. The fol
lowing instances have beeh told to me by
persons of undoubtsd verscity, who could
have no possible motive for stating wha
was not true.
| John Callaghan was well-to-do far
mer, residing in the County Cork. de
WAS a sober, steady man, and had never
been known to be behindhand in paying
his rent. Though his farm was not very
large, still by good management, he was
able to support his family comfortably
out of it. There came one summer, how
ever. that the weather was SO bad that
nearly all poor Johns crop failed, 30 that
when rent day came he had no money to
meet it. There was only one thing to be
done under the circumstances-he must
sell some of his stock. He regretted
much being obliged to do this. but he had
no other alternative, if he wished to re-
tain his farm, for the agent was very
hard man and would soon turn him out If
he did not pay punctually. So the next
fair day John took two of his best COWS
and some fat pigs to sell at the fair he
was very tired on his return, and looked
SO i'll that his wife remarked 1t to HIM.
Assuring her that it was nothing but
overfatigue, and that he would be all
right in the morning, he told her that he
had sold the cattle very well, having got
ESQ for them, which was enough for the
half-years rent and something over. He
went to bed Immediately after his supper,
and soon fell asleep. Next morning,
however, his wife wondered he did not
answer when she spoke to him. At first
she thought he was i'll faint and sent at
once for the doctor, who pronounced HIM
dead. 1t was supposed that the anxious
| state Of his mind and the overfatiSue he
had gone through the day before had has
tened his death, his heart having been
affected for some time past.
Poor Mrs. Callaghan got such shock
| by this sad occurrence that at first she
did not think of looking for the money
| her husband said he had got at the fair !;
| but as the rent was due, and accounts
came in for the funeral, she went to the
place where her husband usually kept hls
| money
Har search was fruitless no money
was there She looked in the pockets of
the clothes he had worn, and i'll every
| press and drawer i'll his room. 1t was all
| in vain. The ESQ could not be found
anywhere. Could he have lost it on the
way home? Or had he been robbed :?
Perhaps so. He certainly said he had
got the money but she had not seen it
with him. 1t may have been only prom
issd to him by the parties he sold to; but
that was NJ. likely. The poor woman
was in Il sad way, and spent all her time
in searching for the missing money, and
could think Of nothing else. In few
i-y- s!.v .-t,aA-, -S.s - ..-l svr the rent,
and if she did not pay she and her help
less ones would have to leave their dearly
loved home and either beg or starve.
Such was the state of things when the
very night before the agents expected
visit, Mrs. Cnllaghan dreamed that her
husband came to her and told her that
she would find the ESQ pinned to the pa-
per behind the looking glass over the
chimney-piece in the bedroom. He put
it there for safety, he said, fearing the
house might be robbed, rs it was known
he brought the money with him, and he
thought it would be safer there than in
the presses. The moment Mrs. Gala
CHAN woke she went over to the place
mentioned by her husband in her dream.
and to her inexpressible delight found
the bank notes in the exact position he
had described.
A young lady had present Of very
valuable watch. One day, however, 1t
suddenly stopped, and not wishing to
meddle with it herself she took it to u
matchmaker to have it repaired. In lew
days she called for it, but it was not done ;
30 she said she would como again in a
day or two. That night she dreamed that
the watchmaker's shop would be burned
next evening 50 early next morning she
asked her sister to call for her watch, and
not to leave the shop without getting it.
Her sister said she was sure it would not
be ready. mo matter" she said, ''get it
for me as it is, done or not. Don't come
back without it. for the shop will be
burned this evening know it will ; l
saw it in my dream last night"
Immediately after breakfast her sister
went for the watch. but was told it was
not mended
"How long will it take to do t." she
asked.
"About m hour" the man answered.
"very well, then." she said, Il will
wait for it.
So she sat down and waited patiently
until it was repaired, for her sister was IN
"A most excited state of mind about 1t,
and would have been greatly annoyed If
she had returned without it.
That evening at o'clock the house
took fire, and the flames spread so rapidly
that it was impossible to save anything ;
and had the watch been left there, n
would have been destroyed with the
other valuable jewelry.
CONVICTED BY DREAM.
A friend who lived in the country had
for some time past been missing various
things. That there was II thief III the
house could not be doubted, but who it
was, it was impossible to lind ont. Bread,
meat, butter, bottles Of wine, ale, etc.
all Disappeared in the most unaccounta
BILE manner, and always in the night.
That none Of the servants left the house
1T night was an ascertained fact, and II
was equally certain that no ono entered
from without. How then were the arti
cles conveyed AWAY? And by whom
These were questions which puzzled Mrs
Il and caused her good deal of anx
Iety.
At last she dreamed one night that she
was standing in the garden, and looking
toward the house, she saw III the moon
light n mans face gliding up the avenue
and stand under the window Of one o
the servant rooms Presently the win
dow was softly opened and n basket wei
filled with provisions was let down by I
rope The person below united the bas
ket. and quickly disappeared among thu
surrounding trees. The rope WAS thei
= drawn up again, and the window yer,
gently closed.
On waking next morning Mrs. NJ
told her husband of her strange dream