ARE YOU ALL READY?

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3352, 31 December 1883, Page 2

ARE YOU ALL READY?

A young lady living in Boston, dreamed that an undertaker drove up to the door of her residence, alighted from the hearse, and rang the boll. He asked to see the lady in question, and on her appearing at the door, the undertaker asked, “Are you all ready?" It was repeated on two successive nights, and it so preyed on her mind that her health became affected. By the advice of her physician she made a change of scene, and went to visit friends in a Western city. Shortly after her arrival there she went to call on some friends living in an apartment house, and on arriving at the house she entered the elevator to go to one of the upper floors, where her friends’ apartments were located. Just before the elevator started the man in charge of it turned to her and asked—“ Are yon all ready ?” She looked at the man, and at once recognised the face of the undertaker she had seen in her dream. Startled by this resemblance, she asked to be let out of the elevator before it had started, and after it had gone up a short distance it fell, and killed the man whose face had startled her, and who was the only passenger at the time.