CURING HIS INSOMNIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 471, 5 June 1912, Page 7

CURING HIS INSOMNIA.

Recently a friend who had heart that I sometimes suffer from insomnia told me of a sure cure.

"Eat a good big pork chop anc drink two or three glasses of milt before going to bed," said he, "anc I'll warrant you'll be asleep withir half an hour." I did as he suggested, and now, foi the benefit of others who may be afflicted with insomania, I feel it tc be my duty to report what happened so far as I am able to recall the de tails. First, let me say my friend wai right. I did go to sleep very soor after my retirement. Then N a frienc with his head under his arm cam< along and asked me if I wanted tc buy his feet. I was negotiating witl him, when the dragon on which I was riding slipped out. of his skin anc left me floating in mid-air. TVhi 1, ] was considering how I shoul.l down, a bull with two heads pccrec over the edge of the wall and saic ae would haul me up if I would first climb up and rig a windlass for him So as I was sliding down the mountain side the engine-driver came in and I asked him when the trait would reach my station. "We passed your station 400 year; ago," he said, calmly folding .the train up and slipping it into his i T est pocket. At this juncture the clown bounded into the ring a nd pulled the. centrepole out of the ground, lifting the tent and all the people in it up, up while I stood on the earth belov watching myself go out of sigh' among the clouds above. Then " awoke, and found I had been asleep almost ten minutes !