The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-08
SIeenInp Under Difficulties,

There are some men who sleep any
where, and on anything, except lounge.
There is something about an ordinary
lounge that will drive sleep from
tho sleepiest person in the world.
A person will 90 TO church and sit right
up straight in pew and go TO sleep while
tho minister is trying his best TO keep
the sleeper awake, but let that same man
20 home and lie down on lounge and
he can't 90 to sleep to save him. No
body knows what it is about lounge
that drives sleep away. 1t may be the
way it is built, but we defy anbody to
get wink of sleep on a lounge Speak
ing Of lounges, we get the particulars
from minister at Eau Claire, Of thing
that happened TO young man. Harry
Morrison, n young gas-ftter, who Is
| boarding at his brother.in-laws was
asked TO sleep on lounge il the sitting
room, as there was sickness inthc house,
and it might be necessary TO call on him
in the night TO go after the doctor, Har-
~ never was much on lounges, anyway,
| but there was nothing mean about him,
so he prepared TO go to his rest, so as 10
be handy in case Of an emergency lie
campcd down, aud for two hours tried 20
90 10 sleep. Sometimes the back Of the
lounge would rear up aud hook him in
the back, and then it would stab hin
somewhere else. The springs would
work through the cover and corkscrcw
themselves into his flesh, and every hair
Of tho lounge cover seemed 10 stand on
end and run into his vital parts. He got
nervous and wished they would call him
and send him clear TO Chippewa Falls
after a doctor. Finally he got mp and
went into the bathroom, and there was
the hath-tub, which looked to him rs
though it was downy bed, such rs an
angel might sleep in, compared TO the
lounge. He is no angel, but he got
some quilts and put into the bath-tub,
and n pillow, and laid down in it, and in
five minutes he was asleep. Most young
men kick moro or less in their sleep, and
Harry is no exception. He kicked, anC
his tiny hoof came in contact with the
faucet and the water was turned on.
The cold water struck the quilts ana
made no noise TO wake him, but gradually
the cold fluid found its way up his
trousers legs, along his spine, and, in
fact all over him. He began to dream
that he was running for Vicc-Presidcnt
on ticket with Charles Francis Adams.
Then the dream changed and he faucied
he was on an Arctic expedition, and
while he was unching on a piece of
frozcn-boncd seal, polar bear was eat
ing his foot off Then he dreamed that
hc was shoycling snow on a railroad and
Il snow-plow had run into him and threw
him forty feet into the air. 1t was at
this time that he was graspcd by the
hair Of the head by the brothcrin-law,
and jirkcd out Of the bath-tub. under the
impression that Harry was trying to
CONT bathtubicide. The brothcr-in-aw
had got up to call him and found that the
lounge which had known him knew him
no more, and the search that followed
resulted in finding him nearly covered
with water, and snoring as peacefully as
Il deacon in church. Harry RIM himself
| through clothes wrngcr and came out
rs dry MS a voter on election day, but he
insists that Il bath-tub beats a lounge to
sleep III. -Pcck's Sun.