"A laborer told his wife, on awakening from a curious dream, about four rats coming towards him. The first one was very fat, and was followed by two lean rats, and the rear rat was blind. The dream perplexed him and there was a legend that dreaming about rats denotes a coming calamity. He appealed to his wife concerning this, but she could not help him. His son, a sharp lad, who heard his father tell the story, volunteered to be the interpreter. "The fat rat," he said, "is the man who owns the saloon that you go to so often. The two lean rats are my mother and me, and the blind rat, father, is yourself."