Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 776
A Jack-in-the-Pulpit livewithout sleep ? Preposterous ! I ve just heard ofa boy saying that he wished he was like the plantsand flowers, so that he could live without sleep.You see, the little fellow liked to study hard, andkeep at the head of all his classes, and, at the sametime, he wanted to… … shook under me at thinking what a miserable-looking Jack I should soon be if I tried to live with-out sleep. Now, I advise this young gentleman to go intohis papas garden two or three hours after sun-set, and see how the plants have folded in theirleaves and are nodding their graceful flowers…
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