Biscuits and a soldier’s waltz

Source & context

Brief infant-school quotation; oral versus written route not assigned to this case. Whole printed example, not an unedited child-written dream log. Kimmins compiled anonymous historical child reports. The youngest reports were mostly individually told to head mistresses, with a few seven-year-old written accounts; this source does not identify the recording route for each example. Kimmins admits memory gaps, filling in, omissions, fusion with waking material and secondary elaboration. Ages and historical school descriptions are source labels, not modern diagnoses or proof of authenticity. The compiler acknowledges secondary elaboration and fusion with waking material; this is not an independently authenticated untouched child-written log.

Anonymous historical child’s reported dream (Anonymous historical child, age seven in the surrounding section), in C. W. Kimmins (compiler), Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), Printed pp. 41–42. Original English historical printed account via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; original source wording, uncertainty and paragraph divisions retained after scan-confirmed OCR repair. Not a modern Synastry community submission.

No exact dream date inferred from relative dates, historical collection periods or later-event claims; publication year is not dream date.

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Original English historical reported dream printed in Children’s Dreams (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920). Original publication term expired in the United States. Anonymous child dreamers and their individual oral/written recording routes are distinct from Kimmins’s role as compiler. No modern translation, introduction or new edition is copied. Public archive access is not a new licence; no blanket worldwide rights warranty or modern scan-asset licence is asserted.

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Titles, theme labels, illustrations and map connections are editorial navigation aids. They are separate from the account’s words and do not establish connections between real people.