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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
DUCKS'
EGGS
A
little
girl
of
the
author's
family
kept
ducks
and
was
anxious
to
sell
the
eggs
to
her
mother.
But
the
eggs
could
not
be
found
by
eager
search.
On
going
to
bed
she
said,
"Perhaps
I
shall
dream
of
them".
Next
morning
she
exclaimed,
"I
did
dream
of
them,
they
are
in
a
place
between
grey
rock,
broom,
and
mallow;
that
must
be
'The
Poney's
Field'!"
And
there
the
eggs
were
found.
{11b}
THE
LOST
KEY
Lady
X.,
after
walking
in
a
wood
near
her
house
in
Ireland,
found
that
she
had
lost
an
important
key.
She
dreamed
that
it
was
lying
at
the
root
of
a
certain
tree,
where
she
found
it
next
day,
and
her
theory
is
the
same
as
that
of
Mr.
A.,
the
owner
of
the
lost
cheque.
{11c}
As
a
rule
dreams
throw
everything
into
a
dramatic
form.
Some
one
knocks
at
our
door,
and
the
dream
bases
a
little
drama
on
the
noise;
it
constructs
an
explanatory
myth,
a
myth
to
account
for
the
noise,
which
is
acted
out
in
the
theatre
of
the
brain.
To
take
an
instance,
a
disappointing
one:--
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