The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-05-22
BLIND LEADING
THE BLIND
Why He Lost His Job of Waking
Up the Snorer.

II guess the oldest job | ever had"
said a man who in the course of his
life thus far has had many curious en-
pigments, was waking up a snorer.
The man | had this job with was a
man with good deal more than com
Portable MEANS and just about as nice
man as ever lived; but he certainly
was snorer This didn't bother him
any on his own account, but it did
worry him because it 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 himself
, of having somebody to sit in his room
nights and wake him up the minute
his trombone started, and | was the
: man he got. He hired me through his
physician. I'd done some little work
at one time and another for this doc
| tor, and he recommended me.
And that looked like good job to
me at the start. He was a jolly, nice
| man, and he fixed me up very comfort
ably in a sort of alcove there was in
! his room, with big easy chair along
| side a table with lot of books and
! magazines on it, and with a high
hot hn ohai nd to
! 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 than my
snoring. And then he goes to bed.
And he hadn't much more than got
! there before he began 10 snore. but l
was on the job, standing at his side
| and waking him in a minute, and
he was little bit surprised that first
| time | walked him, but he remembered
! in minute and said: All right son.
and smiled and went to sleep again.
Il had to wake him like that two
| or three or four times a night irreg-
ular, sometimes more, sometimes less.
| but we got along all right He sure
was an able snorer, and sometimes
! he'd start right off full blast right
| from the jump, but usually was able
! to get 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
as you could imagine; and the boss
was pleased, and / certainly was.
1t was night work, 1 know, but 1
didn't mind that; the pay was good
| and the work easy, anu I thought
| was fixed and settled in about as nice
| and easy job as a man could have.
| And then all Of sudden one night
| this job went up the spout in a min
| ute.
That night, or along about 3: Is in
| there in the big arm chair for the boss
| to turn up, felt somebody shaking
my shoulders, and shaking hard
! enough, pretty near, to shake my head
| off and then I wake up and sees the
boss standing over me.
Governor says, what's the mat
ter?' though 1 knew what was the
matter we'll enough.
"'Matter?' he says, matter? Why
il l snore one-twenty-fifty as loud as
you do l wonder they didn't put me
| out of the house long ago.
"And that was all there was to it;
J the governor had been a little quieter
than usual that night and not being
! called so often l had fallen asleep on
my post ard gone to snoring my
self, and | suppose the boss was
right about how loud l was snoring
because, as matter of fact, l am
something of a snorer; if l could rely
on my snoring regular and even, l
could have made q fortune long ago
hiring out as foghorn anywhere on
the coast
mo wonder the governor was dis
turbed: Id 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 it and think it was sort of funny,
but he said he couldn't take such
risk again, and he just gave me a
months pay in advance and let me go.
And that was the only job of the
kind l ever took. l had thought after
I'd been with the governor about a
month that l would make this my
regular business; it was easy and
good pay, and l could get plenty of
other people to look after, just as I
had this one, through my friend. the
doctor; but after this experience,
when 1 came to consider what might