DREAMED OF SON'S DEATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

DREAMED OF SON'S DEATH.

'• ' ~ ' ' - V ,-v MOTHER'S TRAGIC STORY. * A mother's dream, in which she saw her son drowned in a rough *i!a,?'cMn»i| true to the exact detail a few days afterwards at Clacton. . J The boy was Clive Moss, aged 15§iS lived with his 'mother, the - owner of ; Rooks Hall Farm,' Cressing, near Braintree. ,'. '

Olive went to CI acton on a diyr's trip, • and bathed in the sea with lis lister, Phyllis, ~ Both were carried out bj 1 tin • rising tide, ; the girl»being saved vaiad! the boy drowned. • -:. , l " A few days before my Clivd vent to Clacton," said ; Mrs.. Moss, **'I Wd lay! vivid'; dream, in which I str him drowned. ~. - •.1 \ " "Die : sea > appeared to .be very rough, and dive was c&ftidd ~away. ' I tried tdty'll3 him out, but could not do so, and jtufc then I was . awftkecsd •by' my daughter knocking loudly oh mv bedroom « door, calling-me to get up.V. * ■* When I: got > downstairs I told my |§ family of the dream, and just theft ! Clin came downstairs, looking so healthy t&dL strong.' ur ' V . '\/- V•• " I told him -of 'the. dream, bat he $:£ laughed, ; and none of • the . family took any serious notice of it. " . • :j ""I -"".told Olive's 4 grandmother of the dream. ' ".-.v ■ v ;/. . " In a day or two the harvest was . done, and several of „my children went' on r the m excursion to Clacton. ' I could not go with*:* them. - ' '•' ' . vv " But during the morning % tho % dream came back to my; mind. At" dinner-time I&| left the cultivator, i and. went. home, hot® could ; not eat any dinner. ''In the- afternoon I motored into Brian-

tree market, but I was still troubled by the dream,- and - people remarked fto me I looked ill. ■ '

"I; was in Braintree market • when- the vicar of Creasing came in;; and told that Chve iwas drowned rat Clacton.v;®%*p " I motored to Clacton "at once with thi vicar, and there saw my poor dead boy."*