Thereupon he dreamed that he was very joyful over it and he attempted to hide the money he had gained, on account of the jealousy of those around.

"That man eventually sold his own wife and made money out of the shameful deed. That source of income proved very profitable but he found it necessary to keep the matter from any one's knowledge."

In the case of that man, too, wish was father to the thought, - and that, long before the deed. He first dreamed what he lacked the courage of carrying out. As he could look upon the dream as an order from the Gods, that dream led to a course of action which he might have adopted even in the absence of the dream. Possibly only in a short time.

The dream is a dream of impatience. The dreamer can hardly wait to sell his wife and acquire the gain.

From the art of dream interpretation of the East one might also draw some excellent examples. I limit myself to one account of a jest of Buadem (literally "that man"), a name which, according to Dr. Mullendorf, is only a pseudonym devised by Mehemed Tewfik, the publisher, for the well known Jester-Poet, Nassr-ed-dm. This Turkish Eulenspiegel is supposed to have "flourished" during the fourteenth century.

Buadem was not quite five or six years of age, when he related the following dream to his father: