Each of us was very anxious to possess the most exciting record ; but we were an honourable little crew , and I do not think anything was ever written down in those dream books which had not really been dreamed . We had expected that the Story Girl would eclipse us all in the matter of dreams ; but , at least in the beginning , her dreams were no more remarkable than those of the rest of us . In dreamland we were all equal . Cecily , indeed , seemed to have the most decided talent for dramatic dreams . That meekest and mildest of girls was in the habit of dreaming truly terrible things . Almost every night battle , murder , or sudden death played some part in her visions . On the other hand , Dan , who was a somewhat truculent fellow , addicted to the perusal of lurid dime novels which he borrowed from the other boys in school , dreamed dreams of such a peaceful and pastoral character that he was quite disgusted with the resulting tame pages of his dream book . But if the Story Girl could not dream anything more wonderful than the rest of us , she scored when it came to the telling . To hear her tell a dream was as good -- or as bad -- as dreaming it yourself . As far as writing them down was concerned , I believe that I , Beverley King , carried off the palm . I was considered to possess a pretty knack of composition . But the Story Girl went me one better even there , because , having inherited something of her father 's talent for drawing , she illustrated her dreams with sketches that certainly caught the spirit of them , whatever might be said of their technical excellence . She had an especial knack for drawing monstrosities ; and I vividly recall the picture of an enormous and hideous lizard , looking like a reptile of the pterodactyl period , which she had dreamed of seeing crawl across the roof of the house . On another occasion she had a frightful dream -- at least , it seemed frightful while she told us and described the dreadful feeling it had given her -- of being chased around the parlour by the ottoman , which made faces at her . She drew a picture of the grimacing ottoman on the margin of her dream book which so scared Sara Ray when she beheld it that she cried all the way home , and insisted on sleeping that night with Judy Pineau lest the furniture take to pursuing her also . Sara Ray 's own dreams never amounted to much . She was always in trouble of some sort -- could n't get her hair braided , or her shoes on the right feet . Consequently , her dream book was very monotonous . The only thing worth mentioning in the way of dreams that Sara Ray ever achieved was when she dreamed that she went up in a balloon and fell out . `` I expected to come down with an awful thud , '' she said shuddering , `` but I lit as light as a feather and woke right up . ''
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