Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1881 — An Arithmetical Dream. [ARTICLE]

An Arithmetical Dream.

A 7-year-old pupil of the Central School, who sleeps with his mother, is in the habit of talking while asleep, and a few nights ago the lady was awakened by the strange conduct of her little son. The boy, it seems, was dreaming that he was doing a sum in arithmetic, and fancied his mother’s face was a slate. She allowed him to put the imaginary figures down on the imaginary slate, but when he spit on his hand and was about to erase the example she deemed it high time to dispel the illusion, which she did by shaking the young man until he awoke. —Buffalo Express.