AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1918, Page 8

AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

BESCUED BY A TANK. Some dreams come true, so it is said, and according to Mrs. Bradley an awful dream that she had at midnight on Monday last came true only too well. When 7 the Wanganui Herald's special reporter was up the Mangaturoa Valley with the Hon. Air. Guthrie's party on Friday, he had the pleasure of a tabs with this brave little woman, who was nursing her seven months old baby. And this is her thrilling story. "At midnight, I think, I was awakened partly by the roaring oP the wind, and partly by an awful dream I had just had. I dreamt that the Mangaturoa Valley was on fire from end to end, and that our house was burning. I dreamt that I suggested tp my husband that he should take the water-tank down from the stand, and let baby and I get into it, and he should use the water to soak blankets and things in to put over the tatik to keep it cool. I dreamt I grabbed up everything I thought valuable and placed them m the tanks Just as baby and I were getting into the tank I awoke with a terrible start. I thought I would tell my husband of my dream, but on second thoughts 1 decided not to, because he might have thought me silly, you know. Well, ,in an hour or so sure enough the valley was on fire and so was our house. I did exactly what I did in my dream, and that was how we saved our fives. I shall never forget the experience, and, do you know, our wee baby was laughing practically all the time he was in the tank with me from 3 a.m. till 7 a.m., when we left for McArthur's.