Miller wrote: “To see a pump in a dream, denotes that energy and faithfulness to business will produce desired riches,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Pump · Heading 1634; source lines 18382–18395 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a pump in a dream, denotes that energy and faithfulness to business will produce desired riches, good health also is usually betokened by this dream.
To see a broken pump, signifies that the means of advancing in life will be absorbed by family cares. To the married and the unmarried, it intimates blasted energies.
If you work a pump, your life will be filled with pleasure and profitable undertakings.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pump · Heading 622; source line 3980 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming of a pump is an excellent omen: if you dream of pumping clear water from one, it shows that you will have good luck in business, or in a speculation: pumping dirty water is a sign of sickness.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pump · Dream section, heading 340; source lines 4680–4682 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To pump water is a sign of a speedy marriage.
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