The Opelousas courier., 1907-08-24
WAKING UP A sNoRER
The Most Curious Experience OF q
Man of Varied EmploymenH5.

The Most Curious Experience OF q
Man of Varied EmpIoyments.
II guess the oldest job l ever had"
said a man who in the course OF his
lie thus far has had many curious
employments, was waking up a saor-
er.
1.-THE man | had this job With was a
man Of good deal more than comfort
able means, and just about Ga nice a
man as ever lived; but he certainly was
O snorer. This didn't use to bother
him any, on his W account, but 1t did
use to worry him because 1t disturbed
other people, and he tried all manner
Of means to stop it.
He tied up his head when he went
to bed so that he couldn't open his
mouth, and he tried sleeping on his
right side and on his left, and on his
back, and lying straight, and lying
crooked and every way. But Nothing
doing. He would get to snoring; and
finally he thought up the idea OF hav-
ing somebody to sit in his room nights
to wake him up the minute his from
bone started, and l was the man he
got. He hired me through his ply
sician. I'd done work at cne time and
another for this doctor and he recon-
mended me.
1T looked like a good job to me,
at the start. He was a jolly, nice man
and he fixed me up very comfortably
In a sort Of alcove there was in his
room, with a big easy chair alongside
Q table with a lot of books and mag
azines on it, and with a high screen
between the chair and table and his
bed to shut Off the light from him.
Now, there you are he says, the
first night l sat in with him, books
and papers and an easy chair, and you
just make yourself comfortable, only
don't rustic the leaves any more than
you can help, and whatever else you
do don't upset this screen when you're
hurrying to wake me up, because that
would startle the folks more thai
my snoring Then he went to bed.
He hadn't much more than got
there before he began to snore, but l
was On the Job, standing at his side
and waking him up in a minute, and
he was a bit surprised that first time
] walked him, but he remembered in a
minute and said: All right, son.
and smiled and went to sleep again.
* had to wake him like that two or
three or four times a night, irregular,
RNrn nf4 m &c moro cnrofi~a &C Ices. hI1f We
got along all right. He sure was an
able snorer, and sometimes he'd start
right of full blast right from the
Jump, but usually l was able to get
TO him before he'd begun to make the
house tremble, and things went along
that way, everything all right, for
about seven weeks just as nice as could
be, the scheme working as slick a.
you could imagine; ana the boss wa
pleased and I certainly was.
1T was night work, l know, but
didn't mind that: the pay was good
and the work easy, and thought / was
fixed and settled in about as nice aIi
Easy a job as a a could have. Then
Ill of a sudden one night this jot
went up the spout.
fs "That night, OF along about quarter
past 8 in the morning 1t was, while
was sitting there In the big chair wait
Ing for the boss to turn up I felt some
body shaking my shoulders, and shak-
Ing hard enough, pretty near, to shake
my head off, and then | wakes up and
sees the boss standing over me.
Governor / says, what's the
matter?' though I knew what was the
matter we'll enough.
" Matter? he says, 'matter?' Why,
If I snore one-twenty-ffth as loud as
you do I wonder they didn't put me
out Of the house long Ego
"And that's III - u was to It; the
governor had been a Il tie quieter than
usual that night, and not being called
so often I had fallen asleep sn my post
and gone to snoring myself, and / sup
pose the boss was right about how loud
/ was snoring, because as a matter Of
fact I am something of a snorer; ii
I could only rely on my snoring rcg'
ular and even / could have maHf a
fortune long ago hiring out as a fog
horn anywhere on the coast.
mo wonder the governor was dis
turbed; I'd walked up not only him, but
the whole family, and that was the
last of my job there.
HE took it Just as nice as could
be, in fact he was inclined to laugh
over 1t, and think 1t was sort of funny
but he said he couldn't take such
risk again, and he just gtve me t
months pay in advance and let ms
60.
*'"That was the only job of the kline
ever took. ! had thought after II
been with the governor there about {
month that I would make this my reg
ular business; it was easy and goot
pay, and I could get plenty Of othel
people to look after, just as I had THU
one, through my friend the doctor
but after this experience, when I cam
to consider what might happen If
should fall asleep myself, why. ! di'
not think 1t would be fair to my Gus
W. CT--1 Co.