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Do you know it is the oddest thing, but on the 26th of October I dreamt that I saw you lying on the ground quite unconscious, your face bleeding and looking so dreadful. I woke up calling to you. I told Kate 374 DREAMS WHICH MAT BE REASONABLY [chap. directly I came down, and we both marked the date. I told mother, too, I had had a bad dream about you, but I did not describe it for fear of frightening her. Was it not strange ? It was such a vivid dream, it struck me very much, but I did not mention it in my last letter to you ; I thought you would laugh about it. But it is strange — on the very day too. In Mrs. Pierce's letter, the following sentence occurs : — Was not May's dream singular 1 She came down that morning you were hurt, and told Kate, every particular of it agreeing with the time you were hurt. In answer to inquiries, Miss Pierce writes : — Frettons, Danbury, Chelmsford. December 31st, 1885. On the night of the 26th October (i.e., 26-27), I dreamt I saw my brother lying on the ground, his face bleeding and dark ; he was quite unconscious. I called to him, but he did not answer, and was stooping towards him, calling him by name, when I awoke. It was so vivid a dream that it produced a great impression upon me, and I felt as though some accident had befallen him. I cannot tell at all what time in the night it was. In the morning I told my sister, and put down the date, also mentioning it to one or two others ; but to my sister I described it in the same words that I have now used. I am not at all accustomed to having bad dreams about friends ; indeed, I never remember having had one before. Neither am I superstitious, but, nevertheless, I felt convinced that something untoward had occurred. So when the letter came, just three weeks after the accident, I knew it was the confirmation of my fears.