CHECKING A NIGHTMARE.
A Chinese physician says that in a case of nightmare instead of awakening the sleeper by bringing in a light, yon should <• bite his toe.” This is a very simple remedy—at least Mrs Poppleton thought so, for she treasured the receipt up in one of the chambers of her memory, and the other night when Poppleton was sized with a two-horse power nightmare, seventeen hands high, and in a muffled ghostly voice muttered “ Owbowhwoh ! Ughughughuhu!” as if a circus elephant was performing tricks on his stomach, she quietly slid to the foot of the bed, and was in the act of seizing his big toe iu
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 274, 28 November 1877, Page 2
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