BURGLARS AGAIN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 426, 8 February 1909, Page 3

BURGLARS AGAIN.

Sleeping out of doors, which has become so popular in Sydney that often tho entire household' occupy tho verandahs, balconies, and included corners of tho garden during tho bight, is not as conducive to tho long, "unbroken sleep" of childhood as some people think (says an Australian writer)., In a semi-tropical climate,' whero rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, may fall at a moment's notice; the sleeping members may be rudely awakened, and be obliged to drag bed-and bedding indoors to escape a wotting. Last week two girls (visitors in a house), agreed to sleep in the open ajr, arid, accordingly, had couches made up on the verandah, leaving their own room unoccupied. A sudden storm drove them in durin" tho small hours of the morning. On reach" mg their rooms as noiselessly as possible they found the bed occupied by a snoiing female. Thinking they had mistaken the position they made another search, and finally camped m the passage outside their door, puzzled to know what to do. In the morning they were amazed to find their room ransacked, trinkets and money p-one and a polite note left, thanking them for leaving tho burglars m undisturbed possession.