The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-03
In fflen1orian1.

MUTUAL l06T tuTu tHo SlIlI ouu oOlouiu
night. The only. reason why did not
do this was because l knew, that If
perchance my mother should awaken
by it and find out that was reading |
the book at night, instead of sleeping
peacefully as all Christian children
ought to do, she would take the book |
away from me and never let me have
it again. That was fate so cruel TO
face that 1 would rather consent to
meet every goblin, black fairy, ghost,
spectre or evil spirit in existence, than
that. So clenched my teeth together
and shivered for awhile, listening thru
the darkness with alert ears for every
uncommon sound or noise, until l H.
nally mustered courage enough to
arise from my bed and steal over to
the stove and relight my poor candle.
1t was my plan to go thru the whole
book before l laid 1t away, even If it
took me the whole night. But some
how or other l had fallen to sleep.
And there my mother found me early
in the morning with the book clasped
tightly in my hands and my eyelashes
still wet with the tears had shed thru
one of the saddest dreams ever had.
l awoke with my mothers hand on my
forehead, and looked into her gentle
eyes, so deep so intensely blue, so
gentle and so mild and tender, that
flung the book aside and put both of
my arms around her neck and started
to weep in earnest. had dreamt that
terrible evil goblin had murdered
my mother in the most cruel and
unhuman manner and forced me to
stand beside and look at her terrible
sufferings and listen to her meanings
and cries for help that never came.
And after that he forced me to follow
in lightning fast motion, now on the
earth and now again III the air, myr-
lads of buried dead IN white robes,
bones clanking against bones, emitting
a peculiar uncanny yellow blue light,
emanating the most horrible sounds
and noises that made my blood freeze
in my veins and my hair stand up
erect. When l awoke and saw heI
standing there living and with heI
blessed motherly smile illuminating
her face, had to cry because OF the
happiness l felt. She was the only
one l had in the world. My father
had long ago said his last goodbye t(
, us.
' I finished the book after having
? come back with my mother and siste
, from church, and then fell into On'
of the many sleepless dreams / Away
j have when read anything of unusua
q interest The subject of the book wa
j. not uncommon among our people, a
Q least the people of our locality, one o
/. the most northern of Norway's, nortl
g of the polar circle, with moonlight a
q bright as the sun, and an aurora bore
c aIis flashing it's many colored light
y over the landscape, painting it as wit
It giant brush, now yellow, now rec
o now blue, now violet and now an
e. again mixed in all the cOlOrs an
Is shapes that, altho you are born an
II bred in the very locality, you stand q
l. one bewitched looking aghast and wit
n wonder in your eyes at a landscap
,s so bewitchingly rare and curious
u Then again you have the sun standin
there like a lone sentinel in the azuI
W sky at midnight painting the deep vi
N dulating sea and the mountains, an
W the dales and the homes of the inhal
" itants with her glory and richness {
ie soft yellow gold.
~ The title "CIairvoyant,' am sorl
I'd to say, does not correspond exactly
Il the Norwegian title of the book,
,y does not convey the whole meaning
q idea of the Norwegian word. With
it. Clairvoyant as we understand it
n, English is meant one who knows abol
ne1 the future because he sees into it wi
re his sixth sense, with the Norwegi,
X word .Den Fremsynte" is meant amor
NJ the common people more than to lot
Ms into the future simply and know som
I'D thing about it.. 1t conveys at on
ne the idea of man or woman who
mt in one way or another shown disl
oil spect to an unburied corpse, or q