Charley's Dream

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 184, 25 December 1886, Page 1

Charley's Dream

Ui\..uv put hi-s llnur.b in liii mouth and miJ, "I iiioii'^hc e\eiy one was glad when v, v\a-> Ciii 1-tiiu'h '• So tAerjone is?," taid Anna " Uut everyone i^ not glad,'' nnid Charley ; '• I had a dieam la^t night, and it wit*, about Christians; and who do you think dot.° not like Clnistmas 1 Gue»s.' 5 ■ xNo.i^en&e, I have not time to guess," •aid Anna " It was a large turkey that I f-aw in my dieam, and he came up to me and said, ■ Gobble, gobble, gobble.' And I said, • What ia the matter '!' and the tuikey taid, ' Do >ou like Chiistmas, tor Ido not ; and my father and mother and all tho turkeys that I know of do not like it at all. They aie ail sent to market at ChiistmaF, and <v<ld tor people to eat at their Christmas dmiiein." And the great turkey said to inc. 'Charley, should you like to be eaten for a Christmas dinner V and I said, 'No, I should not. I should inn away &o that no one could find me.' And when I had said that, the tin key .said, ' Why, that is just the thing that I -will «lo ; thank jou foi telling me of it; and then the turkey saiaJ, Good-bye, good-bye, I on'l be eaten a\ ith miacc-pie, and he started off and ran away so fasti I did not think turkeys could goto fa.^fc. And then I woke up and I said, ' Everyone is not glad when Christmas comes.' " Ohailey was very quiet until Anna had dressed him ; then he &aid " I wonder if the turkey got safely away." " Why, Master Chailey that was only a dream." " Ye& I know that," &aid Chailcy; "but it would be like the end of a story, and so 1 hope it ended well, and that tho turkey crot sately away, and never went back to the farmyard." "Of course he did not go back," said Anna. Said Charley, "lam glad of that." —Little Folks.

To Trie Public— T, the nndw^iffnerl, doling day make the following statement, in hopes that others who have prone through a similar affliction may profit thereby :— For many months havo I been sick ; bo bad that life was a burden. J'hc mental depression ana physical prostration were something that cannot bo described, doctors and patent medicines I lm\ <> tried without any relief, but getting wovse all the time. As a forlorn hope I called on J»*. Speor, Falmerslon Buildings, Qneen-strcet. Ho examined me, and Without asking a quest (on. gave mo every symptom I had. Said ho would treat me. Frovh the first teuspoonful of his medicine I felt relief, and have been constantly getting better ever since. Words eaimot espre^ my gratitude. The. above statement 3 make without any solicitation, and 1 am willing to verify tho same before a J.P.— Respectfully yout-3, R. Adammu CLarlotfcC'S.trect, Eileu Terrace.