The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1881-06-07
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There ne some men who sleep any
where, and on any thing except al0unges
There Is something about an ordinary
lounge that viii drive sleep nom
the sIeepiest person 81 The world.
a person will 90 to church and St light
|up straight ina pew and go 10 sleep While
the minister Is trying his best 70 keep
the sleeper awake, but let that same man
70 home and lie down on lounge and
he cant 20 to sleep to save him. No
body knows what It is about 9 lounge
that drives sleep away. H may be the
way II Is built, but We defy ANYBODY 10
ret wink Of sleep on . lounge. Speak
ING Of lounges, We get the particulars
ftom minister a. Eau Olaires of thing
that happened 70 . young man Harry
Morrison, young gas filter, who u
boarding at his brother III laws, was
asked to sleep 3 lounge ia the sitting-
room, as there was sickness in the house,
and it might be necessary I'd call on him
III the night to 90 after the doctor. Har-
" never was much on lounges, anyway,
but there was nothing mean about him,
10 he prepared to 70 to his rest so as TO
be handy ID case Of an emergency He
camped down, and for two hours tried 10
% to sleep. Sometimes the back Of the
lounge would rear up and hook him in
the back, and then il would stab him
somewhere else. The springs would
work through the cover and corkscrew
themselves into his flesh, and every hair
of the lounge cover seemed to stand on
end and run into his vital parts Hegot
nervous and wished they would call him
and send him clear to Chippewa Falls
after doctor. Finally heS got up and
went into the bath room, and there was
| the bath-tub, which looked to him as
though It was downy bed, such as an
angel might sleep Ii, compared 70 the
lounge. He is no angel but he got
some quilts and put into the bath tub,
and q pillow, end laid down IN it, and N
Ave minutes he was asleep. Most young
men kick moro or less in their sleep, and
Harry is no exception. He kicked, and
his tiny hoof came Id contact with the
lancet and the water Was turned on.
/ The cold water struck the quilts and
made no noise to wake him, but gradually
the cold fiuid found its way up his
trousers legs, along hisIspine, and, in
fact, all over him. He began to dream
that he was running for Vice President
on q ticket with Charles Francis Adams.
Then the dream changed and he fancied
he was on an Arctic expedition, and
while he was lunching on q piece Of
frozensboned seal, polar bear was eat
| ing his foot of. Then be dreamed thai
he was shoveling snow on q railroad, and
/ a snow-plow had run into him and threw
him forty feet into the air. It was al
this time that he was grasped by the
hair of the head by the brother law,
and iirked out of the bath-tub. under the
impression that Harry was trying K
comit bathtubicide. The brother in-lav
had got up to call him and found that the
lounge which had known him knew hin
I no more, and the search that followed
resulted in finding him nearly covered
with water, and snoringlas peacefully q
| deacon in church. Harry run himself
through a clothes wringer and came on
as dry as voter on election day, but ht
insists that 4 bath-tub beats . lounge X
sleep in. -Peck's Sun. ,/ef't