The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-06-25

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other couple or hours sleep hau
crib I'm view. a small house with not
much I'm H. But I was looking Tor
sleep. not plumber. l went there, took
out a pane of glass. entered and went
upstairs TO find a place 10 settle down
stood In dark hall hooking into a
room where night lamp was burning.
In the room woman was In bed with
+. child. both asleep. The child was
sleeping on the front Of the bed. very
near the edge He was boy and,
think. about five years old.
on a narrow lower bed, close beside
the other, slept another child. girl OF
about three. She was sleeping in the
center Of her bed on her side and had
her chubby fist up against her Tat
cheek. IL was hot SUMMER weather.
ard none OF them except the woman
had any covers whatever.
What interested me was that the
boys head was hanging over the side
OF his bed and so much OF his body.
too that it looked 10 me as IL he was
about 70 fail He was restless. and |
knew he would be over very soon
somehow I wanted TO see him fall.
though kept in the dark so that be
wouldn't see me IL he woke up. The
next Kick he made sent him over. He
fell a couple OF feet. but didn't wake
up. lie landed partly on the little girl.
but she didn't wake up either. 1 ex-
pected she would, as she moaned once
or twice in her sleep and turned over,
but finally she slept as peacefully as
before.
II was such delightful picture 10
one suffering from insomnia that
kept on watching the. children The
boy continued his kicking and crowded
! the girl. pushing her with every move
} TO the front edge Of her bed. IL must
have been half an hour that he kept
this up. when there was thump. and
the girl lay on the floor. Bot she
/, seemed to be as comfortable there as
on her bed. At any rate. she showed
; not the least sign Of waking.
7 Meanwhile Iherd the muttering OF
: distant thunder, and while ! was look
. ing al them all there came one terrific
n crash loud enough 20 wake the dead
! The mother turned over. but neither
OF the children moved. Then followed
one crash after another, and l expect
8 ed that at least the mother would
|, wake up and. take a look at her chill
o dren But she slept on. She must have
i been very tired or had lost lot o
i sleep or she couldn't have slep
through those terrible bolts. Neve
had heard such thunder before.
The only effect the storm had on an.
e. them was to increase the restless
ness Of the boy He rolled and tum
bled IN his sleep ike a ship tossed b.
the waves. sometimes lying for feV
minutes close against his mothers bed
then rolling over TO the outer edge o
his own. I was sure he'd In time tum
bic out OF this bed, as he had out o
the other. and I was bound to see hir
do IL. Sure enough. before l expecte
II he gave a lurch and landed plum
on top Of his sister.
Neither OF them awoke.
reckon women know In their slice
what's going on with their children
for. now that the storm was over an
W everything was still as the tomb. III
! mother sat up In bed, glanced at h'
children. got up and put them In the
proper places. Then she went back
NJ bed herself and was asleep in me
ST mcnt
I'M "vell," | said to myself IF that
~ what a clear conscience VIII furnis
;, I'm going to have a clear conscience
went back to my room resolved ne
er 10 enter any mans house again 81
- my own. at least not for plumber.
sh went to bed and slept like a top 4
d twenty-four hours.
on kept my resolution found honor
on BILE employment and prospered. But
ne didn't forget the family that converts
he me The mother was widow, an
having hard time to get on. mae
her acquaintance and married her.
~ But none Of my family know that
W. had been n burglar or how I came
know them.