The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-03
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mortal fear thru the still and solemn
night. The only reason why l did not
do this was because I 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 I 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 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 60 thru the whole
book before 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 l ever had.
l awoke with my mothers hand on my
forehead, and looked into her gentle
eyes, so deep so intensely blue, so
gentle aud 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
a 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
sufferfngs 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 In 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 uI
erect. When l awOke and saw hel
standing there living and with hel
blessed motherly smile illuminating
her face, had to cry because OF TIT
happiness l felt. She was the onl!
one 1 had in the world. My fathe
had long ago said his last goodbye t.
. US.
' I finished the book after havinI
, come back with my mother and siste
\ from church, and then fell into OH
! 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
9 least the people of our locality, one Q
j. the most northern of Norway's, mort
Q of the polar circle, with moonlight a
q bright as the sun, and an aurora bore
c aIis flashing it's many colored light
v over the landscape, painting it as wit
It giant brush, now yellow, now re'
% 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
n one bewitched looking aghast and wit
n wonder in your eyes at a iandscaI
es SO bewitchingly rare and curiou
u. Then again you have the sun standin
there like lone sentinel in the azul
W sky at midnight painting the deep u
IN dulating sea and the mountains, ar
W the dales and the homes of the inha
" itants with her glory and richness
DO soft yellow gold.
~ The title "CIairvoyant,' am sor
I'd to say, does not correspond exactly
l the Norwegian title of the book,
ay does not convey the whole meaning
q idea of the Norwegian word. With
it Clairvoyant as we understand it
in, English is meant one who knows abo
ne the future because he sees into it wi
re his sixth sense, with the Norwegi
X word "Den Fremsynte" is meant amol
M. the common people more than to 10
Ms into the future simply and know son
I'D thing about it. 1t conveys at on
me the idea Of man or woman who B
int in one way or another shown dis
oil spect to an unburied corpse, or q