A CURE FOR INSOMNIA

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 July 1909, Page 1037

A CURE FOR INSOMNIA

Recently a friend who had heard that I sometimes suffer from insomnia told me of a sure cure. Eat a .pint of peanuts .and drink two or three glasses of milk before going to bed,' said he, ' and I'll warrant you'll sleep within half an hour.' I did as he suggested, and now for the benefit of others who may be afflicted with insomnia 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 witii his head under his arm came along and asked me if I wanted to buy his feet. I was 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 jf I would first climb up and rig a windlass for him. So as I was sliding down the mountain side the brakeman came in, and I asked him when the train would reach my station. ' We passed your station four hundred years ago,' !io said, calmly folding the train up and slipping it into his vest pocket. At this juncture the clown bounded into the ring ami pulled the^centre-pole out of the ground, lifting the tent and all the people in it up, up, while I stood on the earth below watching myself go out of sight among the clouds above. Then I awoke, and found I had been asleep almost ten minutes.