The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-11-07
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Sleep.
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By sALLiE

Clallon.I
The way I gDt ont of the burglar line
was this: | had mi@hty good nerve and
wasn't afraid of aHy one. | seemed &c
know what kind IF a crib TO crack and
how 10 do il without wal,in. ANYBODY
up and getting away between midniGh.
and dawn. wben ne cops are mos
drowsy While us doH@ 81 job
thought of nothing .1cei1 m; w,rs
and was both cool afa wat. hr.l
wasn't one OF hose d. , v.v e'
people to death II wh ~ ~
necessary to add mrrd e r..
The truth Is ] never ~ q tn
of facing either char &
AS | was sayir@ 9 f.r 49,
my work. however ,n
steady rs a moni..-eE
ger had pasScl! M. i
but think ! weui ,ot. ,ut .t,
What bothtrNl RIO r,.sf
couldn't sleep ui-As-- .ial -
comfortably slowed 1w!s H.. lea
once tock = nap is = "a: fl'lai's 49,
Tor ard vlS cpl v.e'nht1 - t't 81
COlliiflE H. III NAitf +tr s'
just got L - 'i9c a. Live lays"
But wbe' lvia Ihtlres
with wlrnf ,.t 10 chan~e o.
being 6i~tu 80. ,irep wouliu't 10
to mr l,y awake tlini - - r.
tine when | would hea' prison g rt
clang behind me. The thought W.
dreadful. I'm afraid I was too fin
grained for the business
Month after .nont'l nv hours O
sleep grew less Till | fra,cd ireavitY
One night ! woke ~ - Aai}s Ia alto
having slept two h.IrS ae1 knrw tier.
would be no more slI~icr cr me I'll
the next time ! went - led ! vas 81
desperate that I cot ~ with the -
tention Of going into some horse whert
l had no right and there snatch IN
other couple Of hours sleen I had q
crib In view. Il small house with not
much in it. But | was looking for
sleep, not plumber. | went there, took
out q pane of glass, entered and went
upstairs TO find Il place to settle down.
| stood In q dark hall looking into a
room where a night lamp was burning.
In the room Il woman was in bed with
a child, both asleep The child was
sleeping on h front of the bed, very
near the edge. He was a boy and,
think, about five years old.
On q narrow lower bed. close beside
the other, slept another child. a girl of
about three. She was sleeping in the
center of her bed on her side and had
her chubby fist up against her fat
cheek. 1t was hot summer heather,
and none of them eX ept the woman
had any covers whatever.
What interested me was that the
boys head was HANGING Owe the side
of his bed ard SO much of his body,
too. that ii locked 10 me as if ne sas
about to fail He was restless ana |
knew be would be over very soon
Somehow ] wanted to see him fall.
though / kept in the dark sc that he
wouldn't see me if he woke up. Ths
next kick be nsGe sent him over. II,
fell a couple Of feet, but Githi't wake
up. He landed partly III the bttle girl
but she didn't wake Up ei,hrs. | ex
pected she would. as she tnoalicd once
or twice in her sleep and turerl nce'
but finally she aic:': as pea. NJ, y
before.
1t was such Il 3eIi~htfu' i -gr,
one suffering from ia~.
kept on wptcsng n" iiGf'1
boy continued his XIII = '.f
the. girl. pushing her otf,tt
to the front co=e s IL 49,
have been half IA h-.r @.:.
this up, when there WIS - itn
the girl lay 81 the fer
seemed to be "a ,ouaf'r,I..r ,aeio ,
on her bed. 1t any RE. SIS Show Il
not the least 81 q Il Wai.ilS.
Meanwhile ! heald The m%uttoline of
distant thunder, and wh..e MS look
Ing at them MI there came one terrific
crash loud enough ia wake the dead.
The mother turned over, but neither
Of the children moved. Then followed
one crash after another, and | expect
ed that at least the mother would
wake up and take a look at her chill
dren. But she slept on. She must have
been very tired or had lost a lot Of
sleep or she couldn't have slept
through those terrible bolts. Never
had l heard such thunder before.
The only effect the storm had on any
of them was to Increase the restless
ness Of the boy. He rolled and tum-
bled in his sleep like u ship tossed by
the waves. sometimes lying for a few
minutes close against his mothers bed,
then rolling over to the outer edge OF
his own. | was sure he'd in time tum-
bic out Of this bed, as he had out Of
the other. and | vas bound to see him
do it. Sure enough. before l expected
1t he gave a lurch and landed plumb
on top of his sister.
Neither of them awoke.
/ reckon women know In their sleep
what's going on with their children,
for, now that the storm was over and
everything was still as the tomb, the
mother sat up In bed, glanced at her
children, got upeand put them In their
proper places. Then she went back to
bed herself and was asleep in a mo-