At length I did succeed, but this time the dream had a setting.
[Illustration] I have said that we were four boys; but at this time we were five--there was a little baby.

He was very ill, however, and I knew he was not expected to live.

I remember looking out of my bed one night and seeing my mother bending over him in her lap;--it is one of the few things in which I do remember my mother.

I fell asleep, but by and by woke and looked out again.

No one was there.