CHECKING A NIGHTMARE.
, ; A "Chinese physician says that in a case of .nightmare, instead of rudely awaking" the sleeper by bringing in a light, you shourdiJ,bite;hiaJ^e:r. very,; l™g l i>™™&-& l 0 i 'Mra^p^on' thought so^for >she treasured the reci{te lap in one of the chambgrs^ofljer memory,, and the other riigh|, Popple^on 1 jvaaf seized with a two-hofsefpoVer nightmare* (seventeen hands high, and in. a muffled frindt ghostly voice ,•< Owhowjrhwoh ! Ughughughuhu !'' as if a circus^ elephant was, .performing^ tricks on.Jb.is' fetomach, she quickly slid to the foot of jthe bed, and was in the act of seizing his big toe in her teeth, when the dreamer gava a vigorous kick, and Mrs Poppleton pas shot over the tail-board of the bed on to the floor, with four teeth half wav down her throat, The noise awakened Ponple-
ton, and hearing his wife acreaming at the rate of forty knots an hour, he thought* no Jess than ten thousand masked burglars iwere^iff'the-toom, and without striking a light, hejseizeflft chair, and wildly struck right aim^left^H 1 over the room, rfearly braining .Itrb-^p^pleton before he covered the tru§> situation of affairs.-; It was a terrible misVaKfe, and Mrs" Poppleton was laid up^tjfa^feks atid five days,and the first' tHng^saß* did) when^she recovered sumcient strength was to smash' a hundred and Bev*enty-nve pounds' worth; of Chinese curiosities ..she had purchased' at the Centennial .V~and she .Bays iCshe were a man ahjki would go to "China, rr and not return ; hjpme s uT»til she had split open 'that physician from top to toe, or words to that effeci. Poppleton enjoys his nightmares as of yore, without wifely interference.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 21
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272CHECKING A NIGHTMARE. Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 21
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