A Derby Dream.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 240, 6 September 1884, Page 2

A Derby Dream.

A Derby dream which attracted 'some attention,^ (says a Home paper) was that ut a sportitig compositor engaged on one of the London dail£,< papers which devotes a good deal of v attention to ilie literature of horseracing. One night, it se^ms (a Sa|U£^ day nis^ht) . he aw.oke .-.Ha' We an 3 asked her to keep m mind the, wprd^ " IJisber." He had, however, iSrgot-f' , ten all about it on Sunday mp>ni¥ji£j. when his wife, ; asked himj *yW£fl'i* what abont thewoVHj Kisiier 'tbpx; was to keep you m mind off *' 'iN^iT some tirao before*he could recaU vjhat had Occurred j bat at length rW 'Wag able to explain that, whilst asleep, he had dreamed v that the clicker ofrK&i part of the paper had given him. a paragraph to set up to the following effect ;— ** The winner of the Derby , has now receiyed ,a . name-r-it is Ki*^ ben" ; This happened .two or three weeks before the Mineral colt wajg ' announced to have had the. name : pf* Kisber bestowe.d/ 'Upon it- anfi, cuiiously eribiigb',' th" e paragraph /am* noiihcing &>% ihe '^in'efal; coli'tad 3 been bo 'naiueit 'wa« ' hanfied' 'fe> "ilie'' domp6«itbr "m 'question to. put' in 1 * type. As a matter of course r 'tliq' J sporting priiiter— iit lea-4t j«o goes tjfe stdf^bHcked tho'Kor^p; 1 w ;i hr6li; t^W : or throe week»? afterwards, was haUe|T as victor Via the great* Epsom prize? .