The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
From Railey,s Magazlne.

From Bailey's Magazine
About Doncaster's Derby in 1873 score
of dream face stories are told. The
wife of club steward in the metropolis
! dreamed that a member had sold his
."ehance," which was Doncaster, to her
husbanr, and that the horse had won the
race.
She told her lord and MASTER who
pooh -poohed the idea with I've backed
the right one. Kaiser. and you shall have
new bonnet
On the Friday preceding the Derby day
the holder of the ticket for Doncaster OIL
fered it to the steward, saying
II sail on Monday from southampton
for the east, and l want to get out of
this ticket. If any gentleman will give
you a guinea for it, let him have it,
The steward at once thought of his
wifes dreams and replied:
quite right, sir. There's the guinea;
and If no one takes the ticket, l shant
be broke"
AS matter of form the steward offered
the ticket to several gentlemen in the
club and they all refused. Later on he
had the pleasure of receiving e150 ster-
ling over the dream horse" Doncaster.
A costermonger's wife saw Doncaster
win the derby in her Sleep She sang out
with great vigor. THE boy in yeller wins
the doir' and her eoster husband, win
ming $40 over It, bought small pony and
cart and called his pony 1.-THE Yellow
Boy"
George Morton, a racing traveller in the
hosiery line, once told good story of his
Blue Gown dream.
"One night in Manchester" he said,
there came to me a mysterious visitor
in my sleep, / mean-a lady. who said:
George, 1 shall require a blue gown to
match the blue stockings you have given
me- Thrice the visitor came, and thrice
told she about the blue dress"
Although Morton had supported Ros-
crucian, he backed Blue Gown to win q
few hundred and stood in with a friend
who had it in a double event.
A good dream story comes from Edin-
burg. Robert Smart, the proprietor of
Fraters Rooms in Edinburg, a few
nights before the Chester cup in 1871,
dreamed that a gentleman for whom he
had never made a purchase of whisky
Smart being a good judge and his advice
often sought aforesaid to him:
II am obliged to you for the trouble
you took about my whisky. I'm urged
to get some more of It, It's the finest
Glenlivet ever distilled, so I am told.
Please buy me 20 gallons"
The quaintness of the incident dwelt IN
Smart's mind, and reading Bells Life on
Sunday, II struck him that Glenlivet was
the business for the succeeding Wednes-
day. He only invested f20--he came from
Edinburg.
Another Scottish raeegoer backed Haw-
thornden for the ST. Leger because his
wife dreamed she had found a purse in
the grounds of tina locality.
A Sassenach staying in Edinburg heard
the f1shwives call. Caller ou!' He took
it as tip for the st. Leger.
One man backed Ellington for the der
by because the wv" in Wellington was
obscured during some alterations to the
signboard of a London restaurant of that
name.
A Birmingham gunmaker saw his little
lad reading a book entitled Daniel
O'Rourke's Voyage to the Moon a few
days before the derby of 1852, won by
that horse. He won a small fortune, and
went into the public" line.
The chief chemists shop in Stockbridge
was once kept by a man named Coake-
ley, who thrice in the spring of 1876
dreamed that he saw Pyrrhus I winning