Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

bed. NO care on Hly Hilnu.
 Am looking up at the ceiling. The popcorn man is passing the house and calling his wares, but 1 am seeking to make myself oblivious of the fact.
 Big toe on the left foot begins to feel numb Is it possible that sleep first makes its appearance through the toes?
 q seem to feel slight draft of cold air on my head. Perhaps that is the pressure of drowsiness.
 "There is an itching sensation in the right heel Am I about to discover that humanity goes to sleep through it's heels? If so, all theories thus far advanced will fall to the ground and the Bowser theory take their places.
 "Draft of cold continues. Must the human scalp become cooled of before sleep will come? This line of thought is worth following.
 Right leg suddenly gave jerk.
 Left leg seemed to want to get up off the lounge.
 On Brink of Discovery.
 q don't want to rush things, but 1t seems to me that am on the brink of an important discovery.
 'I have just felt twitching of the ears.
 'The jerk of the right leg has been renewed
 "In my thoughts I had gone back to boyhood days when both legs suddenly drew up at once as if I was trying to climb a ladder.
 "As the above motions were follow ed by a numb feeling in the back of my ne; k nothing is :et decided.
 More twitching Of the GETS.
 Strange senso i.o:.s in I5tl 2 t..
 .How Mrs. Bouser c;t:l % to bed ;..!s. snore away wit, sl;ei. q I1o..clto;:s question undoc,.ol is :; puzzle to nzc.
 My eyes ae.e lfoH' fastened on one particular spot ol the ceiling, and l anl thinking of the cider ul.A down on the old farm.
 Il now see tine nl.ll just as it used to stand.
 II now start to enter it to take drink.
 ''The mill now vanishes.
 ''I think sleep is coming. While 1 am not exactly satisfied, it seems to come more from the brain than the feet No ones feet can think of a cider mill.
 q may be dreaming or 1 may be awake but it seems to me as if l could hear the wailing of cats in the back yard
 "As near as can make out, my right foot shot out moment ago, as if kick ing feline.
 "A sort of numb feeling in the right shoulder.
 '.The prickly sensation is present in both heels.
 ''The body seems to be almost asleep. while the brain is still active.
 Ut seems to me that there are cats in the kitchen downstairs. but, of course, this is impossible. Am l to dis cover that one has to think of cats foi | half an hour or so before slumber will come? If so, the statement is bound tc make great sensation.
 Have tried to turn my thoughts into various other channels, but they arbi trarily return to cats.
 'I think hear cats softly ascending the basement stairs.
 'I think I hear them in this very room.
 T think they are led by our own yaller eyed old feline, and that
 Failed to Announce Theory.
 But the data ended there. Tells of terror brought Mrs. Bowser, who had not yet gone to bed, downstairs, and the sight that greeted her eyes was a lively one. She had left the back door open in turning out the cat, and he, fol lowed by half dozen others of his tribe, had entered to see how Mir. Bow ser's theory was banning out. Some took place after they had reached the sitting room, and as the lounge seemed to be the strategic point all made for it, and MT. Bowser was instantly buried under a mass of fight ing cats. Why try to picture the situation in words? Why seek to reproduce his yells and whoops and swear words: Why give the details of the wild flee ing and the wilder pursuit and the Ian guage addressed to the laughing Mrs. BoWser when the last feline had struck the snowdrifts in the back yard? Let it suffice that the Bowser theory on how sleep comes has not yet been put forth to the world, and he may never again seek to solve it.
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