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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
18
THE
MIGNONETTE
Mrs.
Herbert
returned
with
her
husband
from
London
to
their
country
home
on
the
Border.
They
arrived
rather
late
in
the
day,
prepared
to
visit
the
garden,
and
decided
to
put
off
the
visit
till
the
morrow.
At
night
Mrs.
Herbert
dreamed
that
they
went
into
the
garden,
down
a
long
walk
to
a
mignonette
bed
near
the
vinery.
The
mignonette
was
black
with
innumerable
bees,
and
Wilburd,
the
gardener,
came
up
and
advised
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Herbert
not
to
go
nearer.
Next
morning
the
pair
went
to
the
garden.
The
air
round
the
mignonette
was
dark
with
wasps.
Mrs.
Herbert
now
first
remembered
and
told
her
dream,
adding,
"but
in
the
dream
they
were
bees".
Wilburd
now
came
up
and
advised
them
not
to
go
nearer,
as
a
wasps'
nest
had
been
injured
and
the
wasps
were
on
the
warpath.
Here
accidental
coincidence
is
probable
enough.
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There
is
another
class
of
dreams
very
useful,
and
apparently
not
so
very
uncommon,
that
are
veracious
and
communicate
correct
information,
which
the
dreamer
did
not
know
that
he
knew
and
was
very
anxious
to
know.
These
are
rare
enough
to
be
rather
difficult
to
believe.
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