Material for new garments , of night or day , could be bought in any shop for a trifling sum and made up out of hand . But if a dream escape you , in what market-place the wide world over can you hope to regain it ? What coin of earthly minting will ever buy back for you that lost and lovely vision ? CHAPTER XXIII . SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON Peter took Dan and me aside one evening , as we were on our way to the orchard with our dream books , saying significantly that he wanted our advice . Accordingly , we went round to the spruce wood , where the girls would not see us to the rousing of their curiosity , and then Peter told us of his dilemma . `` Last night I dreamed I was in church , '' he said . `` I thought it was full of people , and I walked up the aisle to your pew and set down , as unconcerned as a pig on ice . And then I found that I had n't a stitch of clothes on -- NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH . Now '' -- Peter dropped his voice -- `` what is bothering me is this -- would it be proper to tell a dream like that before the girls ? '' I was of the opinion that it would be rather questionable ; but Dan vowed he did n't see why . HE 'D tell it quick as any other dream . There was nothing bad in it . `` But they 're your own relations , '' said Peter . `` They 're no relation to me , and that makes a difference . Besides , they 're all such ladylike girls . I guess I 'd better not risk it . I 'm pretty sure Aunt Jane would n't think it was proper to tell such a dream . And I do n't want to offend Fel -- any of them . '' So Peter never told that dream , nor did he write it down .
Instead , I remember seeing in his dream book , under the date XXXXX September fifteenth , an entry to this effect : -- `` Last nite i dremed a drem .
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