"Thinking only to amuse them, I related my dream at the breakfast-table the following morning, and I regretted doing so immediately, for anxiety showed itself in their faces, and the elder Miss W. remarked that she hoped my dream was not a forerunner of bad tidings from home. I laughed at the idea, but that morning the mail brought a letter telling them that their house had been entered, and when they went down they found almost the same confusion of which I had been a witness the night before--with everything strewn about the floor. It was a singular coincidence, surely." Miss W. writes:-- "7 ---- STREET, _Dec._ 4. "I am not quite sure whether the incident to which you allude in your note is worthy your attention or not, but I will give you the facts, that you may judge for yourself of its value. "The burglary, we suppose, took place on the night of the 17th or 18th of August, I being at the time, for the summer, in the town of Lunenburg, Mass. "Coming down to breakfast on the morning of the 17th, a lady said to me that she had had a strange dream. She thought she went to our house, finding it in the greatest confusion, everything turned upside-down. As she entered one of the sleeping-rooms she saw two boys lying in the bed; but she could not see their faces, for as soon as they saw her they jumped up and ran off. I said, 'I hope that does not mean that we have been visited by burglars.' "I thought no more about it, till the eleven o'clock mail brought a note from the woman in charge of the house saying that it had been entered,--that everything was in great confusion, many things carried off, and she wished we would come home at once. The policeman who went over the house with her said he had never seen a house more thoroughly ransacked. "We found that in the upper attic room the bed had evidently been used, and there was, perhaps, more confusion in this room than in any other. "The lady who had the dream was Mrs. E. J., of Cambridgeport. I was told that she had been suffering for about a year from nervous prostration, and she was evidently in a condition of great nervous excitement. "I forbore to speak to her of the occurrence, as one of the ladies in the house told me that it had made an unpleasant impression on her mind. "The whole thing seems rather curious to me, but I do not know that you will find it of any value in your investigations."