Young Diamond said they were rich now, with such a big diamond and
such a big ruby.



CHAPTER XXX

NANNY'S DREAM


NANNY was not fit to be moved for some time yet, and Diamond went
to see her as often as he could. But being more regularly engaged now,
seeing he went out every day for a few hours with old Diamond,
and had his baby to mind, and one of the horses to attend to,
he could not go so often as he would have liked.

One evening, as he sat by her bedside, she said to him:

"I've had such a beautiful dream, Diamond! I should like to tell
it you."

"Oh! do," said Diamond; "I am so fond of dreams!"

"She must have been to the back of the north wind," he said to himself.

"It was a very foolish dream, you know. But somehow it was so pleasant!
What a good thing it is that you believe the dream all the time
you are in it!"

My readers must not suppose that poor Nanny was able to say what she