Here your dream fails, for instead of an unsympathetic crowd helping me, I was released by half-a-dozen friends, including the master, and about as many ladies; 3rd tableau - all their loose horses pursuing the hounds riderless.

"My first thought when down was your dream, and before my head was out of the mud, I said: 'At any rate, as I am to be led away by some one the neck must be all right,' and so it was, and I got off very cheaply. Considering that the horse was on my head I can't understand how the only thing that gave way was my extreme back tooth, which got smashed and its next neighbour chipped, a few scratches on nose and forehead sums up the total grief, and cheap at the price. Now will you oblige me, if I am worth a sleeping or waking dream in future, to make a pleasanter one of it, for this morning I feel as if a crowbar had replaced my jointy neck, and every joint is bound in iron cramps of shoulders, arms and legs. A few hot baths and a little massage will put all that right, and as it was the last day of the season, I lose nothing by it. I should not have written all this, but I thought that in connection with your dream you might feel an interest in its fulfilment"

The Hon. Mrs. Leir-Carleton, who experienced this dream, writes from Grey well Hill, Winchfield, as follows:-

"From my childhood I have had premonitions of illnesses; sometimes the illness proves trivial and sometimes fatal. I have no distinct impressions, but coming events seem to cast shadows before them, which, as a child I used to term 'forefeeling' and I have not yet found any better word. I have heard my Scotch mother, long deceased, relate premonitory dreams of her own, so there is probably some hereditary sensitiveness to impressions.

"After a few hours or days the gloomy forefeeling seems to lighten in some cases, as though a threatening 'disagreeable' had been somehow averted. But I can conscientiously affirm that no great sorrow, however sudden, has come upon me unpreceded by a premonition of approaching trouble connected with the individual about to suffer or die.

"1 have also repeatedly forefelt the loss of pets neither sick nor old."

Here again is a case where a somewhat complex scene, involving the action of several persons, is dreamt and narrated beforehand.

Mr. Haggard of the British Consulate, Trieste, Austria, gives the following account of a premonitory dream and its fulfilment: -

"21st September, 1893.

"A few months ago I had an extraordinary vivid dream, and waking up repeated it to my wife at once. All I dreamt actually occurred about six weeks afterwards, the details of my dream falling out exactly as dreamt.

"There seems to have been no purpose whatsoever in the dream; and one cannot help thinking what was the good of it.

"1 dreamt that I was asked to dinner by the German Consul-General, and accepting, was ushered into a large room with trophies of East African arms on shields against the walls. (N.B. - I have myself been a great deal in East Africa.)

"After dinner I went to inspect the arms, and amongst them saw a beautifully gold mounted sword which I pointed out to the French Vice - Consul, who at that moment joined me, as having probably been a present from the Sultan of Zanzibar to my host the German Consul - General.

"At that moment the Russian Consul came up too. He pointed out how small was the hilt of the sword and how impossible in consequence it would be for a European to use the weapon, and whilst talking he waved his arm in an excited manner over his head as if he was wielding the sword, and to illustrate what he was saying.

"At that moment I woke up and marvelled so at the vividness of the dream that I woke my wife up too and told it to her.

"About six weeks afterwards my wife and myself were asked to dine with the German Consul-General; but the dream had long been forgotten by us both.

"We were shown into a large withdrawing room which I had never been in before, but which somehow seemed familiar to me. Against the walls were some beautiful trophies of East African arms, amongst which was a gold-hiked sword, a gift from the Sultan of Zanzibar.

"To make a long story short, everything happened exactly as I had dreamt, but I never remembered the dream until the Russian Consul began to wave his arm over his head, when it came back to me like a flash.

"Without saying a word to the Russian Consul and French Vice-Consul (whom I left standing before the trophy) I walked quickly across to my wife, who was standing at the entrance of a boudoir opening out of the withdrawing room, and said to her: 'Do you remember my dream about the Zanzibar arms'? She remembered everything perfectly, and was a witness to its realisation. On the spot we informed all the persons concerned of the dream, which naturally much interested them."

Mrs. Haggard's corroboration of her husbands dream and its fulfilment runs as follows:-

"Trieste, "20th October, 1893.

"1 remember being awoke one night by my husband to hear a curiously vivid dream he had just had. It is now some months ago, and possibly some of the more minute details of his relation may have escaped my memory, but what I remember of his dream is the following: He dreamed that we were dining with the German Consul-General, whose drawing-room, a remarkably handsome apartment, was ornamented with trophies of arms from the East Coast of Africa. Having been in those regions himself, he felt some interest in them, and went nearer to examine them more closely. While he was doing so, the Russian Consul came up, and in his usual rather excitable fashion began flourishing his arm, as he dilated upon the extraordinary smallness of the native hand for which the hilt of a certain sword must have been designed. That is what I recollect of the dream. Its fulfilment took place a few weeks later, when the circumstances of the dream had almost passed from our thoughts.