DEDUCTIONS FROM A DKEAM. 271 



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 poiver, preserved through every order of creation ; a 

 proportion 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 applicable. 

 " 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 !" 



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