Biographical Sketch 33 



phenomena it may be of importance to 

 tell what happened at the time of his 

 death (on the coast of Peru) in his Shetland 

 home. 



His mother woke from sleep with a dream 

 of her boy. She saw the ship on the placid 

 Pacific Sea, and a boat, and the Captain with 

 letters in his hand, and he was speaking of 

 " poor young Edmondston." She was made 

 aware that the letters were about her son's 

 death. 



Being a woman of strong good sense as 

 well as of highly imaginative nature, she said 

 to herself that her maternal anxiety had 

 conjured up the vision, and she strove to 

 compose herself to sleep. 



Sleep did come, after a time, but with it 

 the same vision, only the impression was 

 deepened that her boy was dead, and those 

 letters carried the news. 



Profoundly moved, the mother rose up, 

 and after tearful prayers, she recorded in her 

 note-book the whole incident. 



For six weary months the shadow of that 

 warning dream forbade her to hope as 

 heretofore regarding the Home-Darling, and 

 when at last those letters reached Shetland 



