ONLY A DREAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 436, 12 April 1880, Page 3

ONLY A DREAM.

Ik the town of Carlisle there lived an "" iudußtrious shoemaker andhis wife. Wow there was a legend amoug' the poor folks j, - to the effect that on different occasions when the castle had-been besieged, gold -■to a great amount had been hidden iu the » Caatle walls, and in the ground near them/ Among those who fivaily believed in this tale, and who frequently of an evening might have been seen poking j : about the ground, and examining the stones of the Castle walls was this shoemaker, and one morning he awoke in groat excitement, a-.id wld .hia wife that iu his sleep a spirit had appeared to him. who led. him to a certain place in the t Castle walls, pulled out a sione, which V was apparently loose, and discovered an * immense treasure. This dream made such an impression on oar friend's mind that he did not wait for breakfast, but started off to> seciive the'gold. fflien he j .. wached he, alas 1 could not • v remepjfber which stone it was, and all he felt were qui;e firm, so lie returned home I disjointed, A. second'and'third iime .: he dreamt the same thing, with precisely-' I the ar.me resulia, ana on telling- hia wife' of hia failure for the third time, she advised him to ctke his awl to bed with liiiu, j and when the spirit replaced the stone (if he should dream so for the fourth time), j to step forward and stick bis awl in--'the mortar at the side of the stor.e, and leave 'I is there, so that he could not fail to find ■ iihe place. He took the awl to bed-that I night accordingly, and strangely enough' he dreamt 'precisely the same dream, but on his ghostly companion repladug the j stone, lie grasped his, awl irmly, and thrust it with all his force into the mortar f near to it. An appalling shriek vent the air, there I was a violent concussion as of many earthquake*, and he awoke in au.agony of fear to and that lie he had thrust the awl j intir his wife's back and the convulsive increment "she had made in her sudden pain had caused him to fall with ] considerable force from the bed to the floor. . " "The shoemaker lived to be an old man, 1 but he was never to talk of the buried treasure from that time.—Exchange.