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I was told that the Marquis Rudini, on hearing that his mother had met her death in a railroad accident, sought in the dream-book for the number attached to "railroad accident," and bought a ticket before going to get her remains. A winning terno brings its lucky owner I don't know exactly how much but I know it is something enormous. Well, this would be a terno worth having.
How many rows does that make?" "Five." "Then we will cut cards for the rest;" and Pinky drew a soiled pack from her pocket, shuffled the cards and let her friends cut them. "Ten of diamonds;" she referred to the dream-book. "10, 13, 31; put that down." The cards were shuffled and cut again. "Six of clubs 6, 35, 39." Again they were cut and shuffled. This time the knave of clubs was turned up.
But Freud, although theoretically agreed, falls victim in practice to the fascinations of the dream-book cipher method which he has condemned. The adjective Freudian is now justly a by-word, among psychopathologists, for a stereotyped habit of reducing each item of a dream to some cryptic allusion or roundabout reference to the primitive demands of the infantile and sexual life.
I am still a working girl, and by all the portents of the dream-book I am foredoomed eternally to remain a wage-earner in spite of all Mrs. Minnie's good offices. For I was born on a Saturday; and "Saturday's child must work for its living."
She knows the dream-book by heart, and is quite an oracle among the little girls of the family, who always come to her to interpret their dreams in the mornings. During the present gayety of the house, however, the poor girl has worn a face full of trouble; and, to use the housekeeper's words, "has fallen into a sad hystericky way lately."
"Oh, poorly as usual, thank you ma'am," he said. "I should think that country life would be much better for her." "She's even worse in the country." "There was a sheet of an excellent religious paper wrapped about that gaiter. You might give it to her to read." "Thank you, ma'am, I will, though she takes more comfort reading the dream-book than anything." "Burn the dream-book.
"Because," said she, "servants never dream anything but the things in the Dream-book, like snakes and oysters and going to a wedding that means a funeral, and snakes are a false female friend, and oysters are babies." "Talking of babies," said Cyril, "where's the Lamb?" "Martha's going to take him to Rochester to see her cousins. Mother said she might.
For about this time, having nothing else to do, like that old king of Bible renown, he dreamed a dream. But unlike the royal dreamer, he asked no seer or prophet to interpret his dream to him. He merely drove his hand down into his inside pocket, and fished up an ancient dream-book, greasy and tattered with use. Over this he pored until his eyes bulged and his hands shook with excitement.
One is "Mother Bridget's Dream-book and Oracle of Fate;" the other is the "Norwood Gipsy."
The cook suddenly opened her eyes and screamed, shut them, screamed again, opened her eyes once more and said 'Why, drat my cats alive, what's all this? It's a dream, I expect. Well, it's the best I ever dreamed. I'll look it up in the dream-book to-morrow. Seaside and trees and a carpet to sit on. I never did! 'Look here, said Cyril, 'it isn't a dream; it's real.
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