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Show Ke Tramlated the Dream. Here is a parable of rats dipped from a Scotch paper: A laborer at the Dundee Harbor lately told his wifo on awakening in the morning acurl-ous acurl-ous dror.ra which ho had during the night He dreamed that he saw coming com-ing toward him in single file four rats. The first oro was very fat and was followed by two lean onos, the rear rat being blind. The dreamer was greatly troubled, as there is a superstition super-stition among the ignorant that to dreitra of rats forcbodoa calamity. Ha applied to his wifo concerning this, bill she could not interpret the ill-omened ill-omened dream. His son, a sharp lad, wlo hart heard his fathers story, volunteered to be the interpreter. "The fat rat" he said, "is the man who keeps the public houso that ye gang to sao often; and the two lean ones aro me und my mother, and tha blind ono is yourself, fathor." |