Chapter 4: The Drunkard’s Dream

The Drunkard’s Dream Being a Fourth Extract from the Legacy of the Late F. Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. “All this he told with some confusion and Dismay, the usual consequence of dreams Of the unpleasant kind, with none at hand To expound their vain and visionary gleams, I’ve known some odd ones which seemed really planned Prophetically, as that which one deems ‘A strange coincidence,’ to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays…