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I heard it over and over again from my father and the two brothers concerned. A sister of Mr. Swithinbank's corroborates as follows : — Farnley, near Leeds. October 20th, 1883. I fully confirm this statement, as the only surviving daughter of the younger of the three brothers. The last time I saw my uncle William, shortly before my father's death, he specially named the circumstance to me, and I had heard it from my early infancy repeatedly from the lips of my father and his other brothers. R. M. Hudson, {nee Swithinbank). § 2. Next comes a group in which some thought on the part of a waking agent seems to have been represented in the dream. The following case strongly recalls No, 149, where the percipient seemed to catch the idea of a scene about which the agent was silently reading. (407) From Miss Julia Wedgwood, 31, Queen Anne Street, W. March, 1886. My dream was that I was hurrying along the street somehow in company with a little girl of about 10, who was telling me of her life in Florence, where she had been brought up. I was listening to her with great interest, and I remember in my dream being surprised that I could feel interest in the conversation of a child of that age. One odd thing was that she was telling me about building, and that we wandered into some grand new structure, where I had never been before. In the morning I took up the novel Marian had been reading before she went to bed, sitting close to me. I will copy the passages which made me feel that her interest in the book must somehow have been transferred to my mind. My building was not a cathedral, and what the child said about building had the absurdity of a dream, so my dream was not exact. The little girl in the novel has been brought up in Florence.