A HOTEL SORT OF TIP.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1679, 21 May 1874, Page 2

A HOTEL SORT OF TIP.

Mrs. Clifton, the-wife" :6f a wMe: merchant in the Old 'Jewry; in Londbn, one night in the winter of 1844 dreamed a dream, that he saw the Derby won by a bay horse, whose jockey wore a brown body, crimson sleeves, and green cap, and wanted {to back it for ; ten or twenty pounds. Her husband, as most husbands w«>uld,do pooh-poohed the; ; dream, but being worried to death about it, borrowed the Racing Calendar for the sake of getting a little peace and quietness, and a discontinuance of the Caudle lectures with which he had been favored. Looking: in the list of colors, he could find none like those which had appeared to his spouse in her midnight vision, and he thought the matter 'ended; But not «b, for the lady dreamed a second and a third time in succession that the Derby was wbriby a horse ridden as she had seen before. There was no withstanding this treble event, and Mr. Clifton promised to take the lady to Epsom, and see whether she could be right in her conjectures. He was as good as his word/and strange to sayi between the publication of the Book Calendar and the Derby Day, Mr. Gratwicke had changed his colors from drab with greem ■leer«i to chocolate and crimson, which appeared for the first time on Doleful, the favorite. Upon this being pointed out to her, she was aiked if she wanted to back him; " JNo," she replied i "my horse's jockey had * green cap, and I shall^ stick to him;" Scarcely had she .uttered the words before Mr. Gratwicke's r other horse, the Merry Monarch, went by her with Poster' Bell in a green cap, to distinguish him from his brother; "There he hisi'' she exclaimed, in a state of frantic excitement, and, sending her husband into, the ring, he got 2000 to 20 about ihe Merry Monarch for her, in less time than he could write it down, and half an hour afterwards saw the money; landed and the wife's dream verified. V -v