The talk passed from mouth to mouth in the usual serene way.
I do not now remember what form my views concerning dreams took at the time.

I don't remember now what my notion about dreams was then, but I do remember telling a dream by way of illustrating some detail of my speech, and I also remember that when I had finished it Rev.Dr.Burton made that doubting remark which contained that word I have already spoken of as having been uttered by my mother, in some such connection, forty or fifty years before.

I was probably engaged in trying to make those people believe that now and then, by some accident, or otherwise, a dream which was prophetic turned up in the dreamer's mind.

The date of my memorable dream was about the beginning of May, 1858.

It was a remarkable dream, and I had been telling it several times every year for more than fifteen years--and now I was telling it again, here in the club.
In 1858 I was a steersman on board the swift and popular New Orleans and St.Louis packet, "Pennsylvania," Captain Kleinfelter.