[The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts CHAPTER II 33/44
He did not say, or perhaps know, whether the elopement was prior to the kind of dream in Switzerland. Here is a dream representing a future event, with details which could not be guessed beforehand. THE CORAL SPRIGS Mrs.Weiss, of St.Louis, was in New York in January, 1881, attending a daughter, Mrs.C., who was about to have a child.
She writes:-- "On Friday night (Jan.
21) I dreamed that my daughter's time came; that owing to some cause not clearly defined, we failed to get word to Mr.C., who was to bring the doctor; that we sent for the nurse, who came; that as the hours passed and neither Mr.C.nor the doctor came we both got frightened; that at last I heard Mr.C.on the stairs, and cried to him: 'Oh, Chan, for heaven's sake get a doctor! Ada may be confined at any moment'; that he rushed away, and I returned to the bedside of my daughter, who was in agony of mind and body; that suddenly I seemed to know what to do,.
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