The longest-dated demonstration in the corpus. On the main street of Bridgetown stood C. F. Harrison and Company, a department store occupying a whole block, owned for something near a hundred years by an English family who had never seen it. Some nights in the eighteen-nineties, walking home beastly tired, Neville's father used to play the little game of believing - to comfort himself he would believe that he owned that store - and he was as far from ownership as a man born outside continental America is from the White House. Then the life: married, ten children, a junior partnership in a small grocery venture, and in 1919 he was eased out of it by five men who wanted it for themselves, with ten children and no equity and nowhere to turn; he began again with borrowed money and a little grocery store, which was all he knew. In 1942, standing in front of his own store looking across at the building, a man asked him what he was doing and whether he would like to own it - and the answer he gave is the story's best line, that any man who owns this building and entertains the thought of selling it should have his head fixed. The owner in England was ninety-two, with a son who was a priest and another who had been a playboy all his life and wanted nothing to do with overseas property, and within about a week of the cable the family owned it. Neville's father confessed years later that that is what he lived by, for he had nothing, did not have a nickel in this world, and really believed that his dreams would come true. The father's name was Joseph, which Neville does not let pass: behold, this dreamer cometh. Told at 1859 and 2179. About forty-seven years separate the game from the deed, which is the longest interval he ever asks an audience to accept. PROVENANCE: coined out of chronological sequence at the request of the attacher lane (PM 6100/6118), which searched the corpus for Neville's Barbados family stories and found this one carried by no motif. The reader has not read the home lecture in full; the canonical passage and the other tellings were supplied by the attacher and the reading is drawn from the passage text alone. Confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99 for that reason. The attacher will attach the remaining tellings.