Part 25 (2/2)

So they all went to Bed

So great was the confidence which they all felt in their preparations, precautions, and barricades, that not the slightest thought of danger remained in the le exception of Bob

For some reason or other Bob was more excitable at this time than the others It may have been that this was his nature, or it may have been that his nerves were ht of horror near Paestum; but whatever was the cause, certain it is, that on this occasion he remained wide awake, and incapable of sleep, while all the others were slu the sleep of the innocent

He and Frank had the saainst the door It had been placed in such a way that the head of the bed was against the door On the north side of the room, and on the left of this bed, was another, in which Uncle Moses slept; while on the south side, or the right, was the bed which was occupied by David and Clive In this way they had disposed of themselves

Bob was very wakeful The beds were father unprepossessing, and consequently they had all retired without altogether undressing themselves; but in spite of this comparative discomfort they soon fell asleep Bob alone remained awake

He tried all he could to overco sleep that he had ever heard of or read of He tried counting, and went on counting and counting tens, and hundreds, and thousands He counted fast, and he counted slow In vain Counting was useless, and when he had reached as high as four thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, he gave it up in disgust

Then he tried another infallible recipe for sleep He i waves This also was useless

Then he tried another He endeavored to i before him This was as useless as the others

Then he tested ever so rain

Marching soldiers

Funerals

A shore covered with sea-weed

An illimitable forest

A ditto prairie

The vault of heaven

The wide, shoreless ocean

A cataract

Fireworks

The stars

A burning forest

Looking at his nose

Wishi+ng hi on his back, do do right side

do do left side

do do face

And about seventy-nine other methods, which need not be mentioned, for the simple reason that they were all equally useless