Show presentiments Pre Pro sentiments there is a strange story about tho the last victim unfortunately no longer the last to tho tile irish agitation mr ll herbeat Her erbet beit A JIL year ago 10 he lie got fi t up one morning early and told his is family that ho lie had been greatly troubled by terrible dreams di cains lie thought ho lie was shot down dowil on oil the road read between the house and castle island and had a presentiment on the subject which has now been verified it is not unnatural fur for people living iu in ireland at present to dream bearn of murder and it may be thought little surprising that such pre re sentiments should occasionally eo bo fulfilled however mr herberts story reminds me of a similar circumstance in my own experience when though the scene is also laid in ireland as it was before mr Glad stones first ministry the country was perfectly peaceable I 1 was visiting some friends in a beautiful part of county comity wicklow and had crossed ashford ashford bridge in one of my mv excursions that night I 1 suffered ered greatly from a dream in which I 1 imagined that some great unexplained calamity had suddenly befallen becal en me at this bridge and I 1 awoke with a feeling so strong on 0 n me that it was a great relief to find it all unreal but I 1 was unpleasantly reminded of my terror sope some months later when after going home to england I 1 happened to be called by business to wicklow 0 once u cc more my horse it borrowed one ran away with no me and threw me at ashford bridge breaking kiy knee a against hairls the wall aa at I 1 lay in agony on I 1 ground the consciousness rushed back on my mind that I 1 had gone through the very same sensations once before at that very place in my well remembered dream I 1 do not attach any importance to dreams or presentiments pre sentiments generally but this was a curious coincidence mr II herbert erbert seems to have been punished for doing his duty as a juryman a thing naturally intolerable to the kerry brigands brigande bri gands |