Oh, how my heart sickened at that fearful sight! there they lay, the old and the young, all huddled together, sleeping the last long sleep of death. ’Stop, stop,’ I said to my guide; ’oh, do let me turn back—I cannot go onwards; what means this? why have you brought me here?’ The vision smiled sadly, and without a reply, still motioned me onwards. I could not resist. A mysterious indescribable power, as it were, impelled me to follow, until at length it paused, and pointing to the prostrate form of a man, whom to my horror I discovered to be my husband, lying cold and stiff, with a deep wound on his forehead, said, ’It was to take a last look of him you loved so well that I brought you here,’ and with that it disappeared. The cry of anguish which I uttered on hearing this awoke me from my slumber: and oh, Mrs. Johnstone, you cannot think what I suffered from the remembrance of that dream, for, from that moment, I felt convinced that my husband had perished on the battle field. Well, in the course of the following day, when a near neighbour, who had been at the Pentlands, came to apprise me of John Hamilton’s death, I told him, so convinced was I of the truth of my dream of the previous night, before ever he had spoken a word, that I knew he had come to tell me o’ my husband’s death. The man stood staring at me in breathless astonishment, apparently at a loss to comprehend my meaning, until I told him o’ the strange dream I had had; and what do you think, Mrs. Johnstone," added Mrs. Hamilton, sinking her voice to a whisper, "my husband had been killed on the previous day, and by a sabre wound on his forehead." "Bless me," exclaimed Mrs. Johnstone, at the close of her friend’s narration, "that is the most singular thing I ever heard; undoubtedly it was a warning sent to prepare you for the sad news you were about to hear." "That is just my own opinion on the matter," said Mrs. Hamilton, as she proceeded to put a huge piece o’ coal on the top of the smouldering embers; after which signal of preparation for departure, the friends retired to rest.