... prophesies much mortality among the people, both in high life and among the lower orders. It is evil I for Royalty, and sickness, if not death, I will strike one of high lineage in the land. Many deaths by drowning will occur, and infant mortality will he greatly ...

... have been privileged to read what those Press chaps have had to write about them when they presumably had shuffled off this mortal coil. But it is rather different to listen to a rehearsal of one's own funeral ceremonial; and the grimly amusing story is ...