THE COURIER.
RANDOiW NOTES.
Nearly a year ao there was published
a little- story which subsequently be
came known as 'Charley Hoyt's Impos
sible Dream." It was related by the
playwright hitnEelf, and was in effect as
follows:
A Frenchman, who lived during the
reign of terror, dreamed one night that
he had been sentenced to death by the
guillotine and awoko in a state of great
fright and perturbation. On the follow
ing .night he dreamed that he saw the
heads of half a dozen unfortunates
stricken off, and learned that he was to
le the next victim. Again he awakened
and told his wife, who was lying at his
tide, bow the horrible realism of the
vision had disturbed him. On the third
night he dreamid again. This time he
thought he had been led out for execu
tion. He bade faiewell to the priest
who bad shriven him and walked for
ward to meet the executioner. He saw
the blue 6ky over his heaa and felt the
air fanning his brow, and it seemed hard
and cruel that in the very flush of bis
young manhood he should di for a po
litical crime of which he was innocent.
All this was presented to his mind as
he approached the instrument otjdeath
and 6aw the black-hatted Monsieur de
Paris awaiting his coming. Submitting
himself to the executionor's attendants,
he was 6tietched out on a lorg board and
pushed forward so that his neck came
directly under the edge of the suspend
ed blade. He closed his eyes as he
heard a quick order given by the execu
tioner, followed by the swish of the
weighted knife as it fell.
At that supreme moment the dreamer,
in his extreme terrer, breathed so titer
torousiy as to alarm his wife. She
sought to awaken him by slapping him
6martly on the neck. To "the .sleeping
man that touch was the fall of the
hnife, and the eliect was the same aa
though his head had been stricken from
nis body. He dreamed that death had
come to him and it did then and there.
The screams of the frightened woman
aroused the servant, and when they
came in the joung Frenchman was a
corpse.
Such was the substance of the story,
and it ended by tome one of the group
o! listeners askicg:
"Well, Charlie, it the man dreamed he
was killed, how? ' and so it broke off.
This yarn like mo6t of those of like
character, went ricochetting about the
country, getting altered a bit here and
there, until by pruning and cutting, ex
panding and broadening, its original
form became entirely altered, and when
it reached Sidney, New Eouth Wales, it
was a seriously and gravel -discussed
illustration in the etiology of dreams, as
viewed by a' society devoted to psycho
logical study. One of the members went
to the trouble of writing to a young
lawyer in this city, who is interested in
the society for psychical research, ask
ing for a more detailed and explict de
xiption of the fatal dream, and inclos
ing by way of compensation a descrip
tion of a peculiar dual vision which was
alleged to have excited the nerves of the
dream sharks in Melbourne. The writer
personally attested its truthfulness, as
o;e of twenty w itnessjs who heard it re
lated. At the mansion of a wealthy gentle
man in Melbourne a large party were
chatting over a variety of subjects at
dinner, and the talk gradually got around
td strange and unusual dreams. In a
spirit of fun, it was suggested that each
guest should, on the following morning,
write out what he or she had dreamed
that night, and the most curious recital
should receive a prize of a year's sub
scription to a popular periodical, and
the written discretions form the nu
cleus for a collection of "odd and strange
virions."'
There was a sufficiency of Welch rab
bits to make the entire company outdo
the Mysterit'3 of Udolpho in their sleep,
ing thoughts' but next morning, out of
twenty-one guests, only four had any
thing worth re'ating. One of these waB
the host, wjio dreamed that he had
ridden a long distance en a black horse
through a dense forest, and was pursued
by robbeis, who overtook and seized
him. Just as they were about to put
him to death, a woman on a white horse
came dashing up, and unstrapping a
sewing machine from the pommel of her
saddle, sewed all the robbers together by
the hems of their garments, after which
she released the prisoner, who had been
bound to a tree, and he, mounting his
horse, galloped off with her.
"You mu6t remember," writes the Sid
ney correspondent, "that this was a
written and not an oral account of the
dream. No sooner had the gentleman
proceeded thus far than Mr. M., one of
the guests, exclaimed: 'Well, that is
certainty very Etrange,' and asked leave
ta interrupt for a moment while she
read from a paper in her hand. I
-dreamed,' said she, 'that I was on a
whita horse, in a forest, when I saw a
score of men ahead of me surround a
horseman and take him from his sad
dle. 1 rode forward, and as I did so a
sewing machine seemed to be in front of
me on 1 he. pommel. I dismounted, took
off the machine and sewed the coals of
the men together so they could not
move, Had then the gentleman and T
rode off together.
"The company was very much aston
ished at this strange dovetailing of the
two dreams. Both the lady and the
gentleman declared on honor that there
had been no collusion, and that the
dream as written was exactly as each
remembered it. In further discussion
the host and Mrs. M. gave identically
the same description of the forest in
which they dreamed they met each
other, and told the apparent length of
time it took them to ride to a place of
safety."
Charley Hoyt's dream explains itself,
but this New South Wales vision cer
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