DEDUCTIONS FROM A DREAM. 



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thought over, as we walked homewards, the late vagary of our 

 napping fancy, and were not long in deducing from it some 

 admiring reflections on the nice proportion as to numbers, size, 

 and power, preserved through every order of creation ; a pro- 

 portion to destroy which, in any one department, would be to 

 bring destruction upon all. 



This conclusion and our own threshold we reached at the 

 same moment, and then occurred to us a subordinate and 

 domestic purpose, to which our recent dream was also appli- 

 cable. " I'll tell it, or a part of it, to Martha, and perhaps 

 through very fear she will grow more lenient towards the 

 spiders, and I shall hear less of her incessant broom !" 



" iC08t Victim no i&Ie ftp.' 



