Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-02-20
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"a, out walking - aay with
nv friend. Henry ~ -. when
turning suddenly 10 ne. II said
tastes. do you I;eve IN
dreams
III depends upon wlsa Sou mean
BY believing in dreams. answer
ed. believe that p&phs have
dreams, hut j don t beiis = some
say, tilat one can tell the piure hy
drealus. Some say shai rearas 20
by contraries, but ! d ] believe
thai. either. | don / th ! dreams
tare-aaything to DO. VI what Is
/ going 70 happen.
- hope you are right he said
earnestly. for had horrible
dream. or rather niehsnare. last
night. ] dreamed that lhonld die
10 day
We'll, remarked. i hope Jon
- &C
Ne walked on in silense for some
time. but Wilson beganakain.--
II should not have pad any at
tention 70 my dream last eight. only
| dreamed it three times. and each
time the dream was morevivid than
before.
. believe in cause and effect, i
answered. Perhaps yoA ate an in
digesti5le supper last evening. =
Wilson did not seem to appreciate
having supper mentioned as the
cause of his bad night, ana so did
not deign TO take the slightest notice
af my last remark.
Well, We walked on. ether topics
were discussed. and we 9th seemed
to have forgotten al abol Wilson's 5
dream OF the night beibre. After
we had walked on for sose distance
we came to a town, in ahich lived
some people whom | wassed to call
on. They we're old frishds Of The
family, and quite unknoYn to Henry
Wilson, so I said.--
Wilson, I have to call on some
friends IN this town would you like
to come with me. or would you
rather wait for me p
How long viii you L. n he ask
led.
1T is some little dissSncey to my
sssie1tls,.4honse dsssksl siAisAis.. &
could be back in less than an hour
and half "
"I'll tell you what III do. III
take boat and go ON the river" he
said, "aud / II be here again in an
hour and u half, and then we will
walk back together. =
The river flowed through the
town, and Wilson proposed rowing
away from the town.
Very well, | returned, and set
OF 10 find nay friends.
had seen my friends and was re-
turning to the place ut which we
agreed TO meet, when 1 saw that the
meeting place was surrounded by a
small crowd OF people. As / ap-
preached | wondered what could be
.Ae matter surely it could not be
anything connected with Wilson s
dream, ] put that thought out of
my niad in an instant as being alb
surd. | thought it was rather "a
bother that this crowd should have
assembled around the particular
spot at which we had agreed to meet.
| asked what the matter was. The
old man who lets out the boats told
ne what it meant. He replied:
There 5 gentleman drowned.
Where was he drowned p /
asked.
He was drowned there, hesaid,
pointing to rather dangerous part
Of the river. He was found only
ten minutes ago.
Where is he now?" | inquired.
He is lying there.
As knew that Wilson had gone
out boating, and as somebody had
been found dead in that part of the
river in which he was boating,
could not repress q shudder at the
thought of whom the poor gentleman
lying dead ia the boat-house might
be. went into the boat-house aud
saw the body. 1t was the body of
my friend, Henry Wilson.
| have simply stated facts. / do
not say that Wilson 5 dream was a
toreshadowing OF the death which
was 10 meet him during the day. but
do say that if his dream did not
foretell his death, it is the most ex-
traordinary coincidence that has
ever come within my experience.