Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — The Dream Came True. [ARTICLE]

The Dream Came True.

The following remarkable recent experience of a Portland lady is a fact: She had been absent from her home all day, and that night she had a dream. She thought she had started to descend the cellar stairs when a great snake came gliding up. It reared its head close to her and stood there swaying back and forth, and suddenly the head began to change and assume the form of a human head, and finally the face of one of her neighbors was grinning at her on the serpent’s body. She awoke with a scream. The neighbor was one whom she knew but slightly, but with whom she was not favorably impressed. The next morning her servant, a most excellent cook, and so generally superior as to have become almost a member of the family, told her that she must leave her, as the neighbor of the dream had come to the house during her absence the day before and offered higher wages and less work and better advantages generally. The result was the servant went to the neighbor’s, and the lady tells that her dream was appropriate. She had had no intimation or suspicion that this neighbor had designs upon her cook, and there was nothing, apparently, to inspire her dream. —[Portland, (Me.), Transcript.