Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — What the Small Man Dreamt. [ARTICLE]

What the Small Man Dreamt.

A member of the company seated in a train the other day had been relating some wonderful stories of dreams ’fulfilled. Suddenly he turned on the diminutive passenger who had smiled at one of his yarns. “You appear to doubt my word, sir!" he remarked. “Perhaps you imagine that dreams have no value?” “Mine hadn’t!’’ murmured the little man. - ‘ — —■ —' — _ “Indeed! And what did you dream?" “That a big black dog sprang out of the passage and took about half a pound out of the calf <of my leg! Strange to say," he continued, “the dog that actually did bite me was the dog of my dream 1” ; “There you are, then!” ejaculated the other man. “If you'd value the <jreatn at its proper worth you’d have been on the lookout for that dog. and might have escaped. And yet you say that dreams have no value!” “And I repeat, sir, that mine hadn’t, for, unfortunately, I met the dog before I had tbe dream !’*'.- r .