Salt Lake Herald | 1891-01-04 | Page 16 | My Dream and Its Meaning

My Dream and Its Meaning had a dream one night that seemed bo queer I laughed until I wept and waked my spouse Who was thereat so filled with sudden fear That she ia turn awakened all the house The dream was this I thought 1 lived in Spain With all my ancestors from now to Shem And some likewise back there before the rain That fell for forty days destroying them The house we lived in had a single room And one small bed therein in which we all When night had steeped the valley in its gloom Would every one of us cont uietl crawl And there wed sleep with Adam on one side And I the youngest of the line on tother And heres the fun whereat I laughed and cried Until my wife and family thought Id smother I pushed my father gainst my grandad he Pushed up against his father with a snore And so it went up through my ancestry Until old Adam fell out on the floor This roused Ids anger and he turned about And soundly spanked his baby for the trick Who thereat on his own son toor it out By giving him a most tremendous kick The kick was passed along from dad to son And gathered force as nearer mo it came A spank ancestral down the ages spun I feared would bo so forceful as to maim And so poor coward that I am I slipt Out on tho floor then speedily awoke Just as my poor grandad was soundly clipt And left my father victim of my joke 3Iy wife when she had heard the fearsome tale Was sure some horrid omen sho could < l trace Therein and pleaded with mo not to fail To have some doctor diagnose the case And so I sought the doctor and he said The dream is fraught with portent in my sight It means he then observed with shaking head That you must give up lobster late at night Carlyle Smith in Harpers Beast