HE WENT TO SLEEP, BUT—

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2203, 11 July 1910, Page 7

HE WENT TO SLEEP, BUT—

Recently a friend, who had heard that I sometimes suffer from insomania, told me of a sure cure. '“Bat a pint of nuts and drink two or three glasses of milk before going to bed,” said he, “and I’ll warrant you’ll be asleep within half an hour.” I did as he suggested, and now, for the benefit of others who may be afflicted with insomania, I feel it to be my duty to report what happened, so far as I am able to recall the details. First, let me say my friend was right. I did go to sleep very soon after my retirement. Then a friend with his head under his arm came along and asked me if I wanted to buy his feet. I >vas negotiating with him, when the dragon on which I was riding slipped out of his skin and left me floating in mid-air. While I was considering how I should get down, a bull with two heads peered over the edge of the wall and said he would haul me up if I would first climb up and wrig a windlass for him. So as I was sliding down the mountainside the guard came in, and I asked him when the train would reach my station. “We passed your station 400 years ago,” he said, calmly folding the train up and slipping it into his vest pocket. At this juncture the clown bounded into the ring and pulled the centrepole out of the ground, lifting the tent and all the people in it up, while I stood on the earth below watching myself -go out of sight among the clouds 'above. Then I awoke and found that I had been asleep almost ten minutes.