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17 shews you an attack by thieves in some bye-place and also that your sweetheart is of a roving disposition, little likely to make you happy.

Oysters.———To dream you are eating oysters, is a very favourable omen———if you are in trade, your business will increase very fast, and you will become rich: if you are a farmer, you will have plentiful crops: if you are married, your wife or husband will be very fond of you, and have many fine children. For a maid to dream of eating sisters, shews that she will be quickly married to a young man who will thrive much by industry, and have many children by her: to a man, it denotes that he will marry a real virgin, who will be very fond of him, and bring him many children.

Palm———To dream you are gathering of palm, denotes plenty, riches, and success in undertakings, and is a very good omen indeed; to a married woman, it is a certain token of her bearing children; to a maid it foretels a sudden marriage with the youth she loves; that she will have many children by him, and that she will live very happy in the married state.

Pit———To dream of falling into a deep pit, shews that some very heavy misfortune is about to attend you; that your sweetheart is false, and prefers another; to a sailor it forebodee some sad disaster at the next port you touch at. To dream you are in a pit, and that you climb out of it without much trouble, foreshews that you will have many enemies, and experience much trouble, but that you will overcome them, and surmount your difficulties, marry well and become rich; to a sailor, it denotes that he will experience shipwreck, and be cast on a foreign shore, where he