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pass in a hired carriage, and I seemed to see before 

 me a friend from whom I had parted on the previous 

 day, when he got into an omnibus to return to the 

 country. I soon saw in the distance a large coach- 

 builder's establishment, a vast enclosure with sheds 

 and carriages, and in the piazza I saw the manager, 

 a man I knew, who had really some appointment in 

 a carriage manufactory ; the building recalled by 

 association the familiar appearance of the high 

 chinme3 r s which rose above the roof, and while 

 thinking of those chimneys with my eyes fixed on 

 the manager, he appeared to me to be changed into 

 a very high chimney, still bearing a human face. 

 Finally, not to multiply examples, I remember a 

 dream in which I was present at a popular dis- 

 turbance, where one woman, more furious than the 

 rest, came to blows with her husband, and called 

 him a dog. Suddenly the scene changed, and I was 

 transported to a courtyard in which there were 

 poultry, pigs, and a fine dog of my acquaintance, 

 called Lightning. Again the scene changed, and I 

 found rn3 T self in a country district with some friends, 

 exposed to a violent storm of thunder and lightning. 



We clearly see from these facts that whatvviT 

 may be presented to the imagination is transformed 

 into a real object in the dream itself, so that it might 

 be called a dream within a dream, and in the last 

 instance the transmutation passes through three 

 images and consecutive objects. This transmutation 



