HABITS OF SLEEPING 



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Some children have to be spoken to and shaken and 

 called over and over again before they are awake enough 

 to get up. Other children waken at the first call and get 

 up without any trouble. Perhaps one child has not slept 

 enough, but very often the 

 real reason is that they have 

 different habits of waking. 

 If any one gets into the 

 habit of hearing the first call 

 and getting up at once, he 

 will always hear it; but if 

 he pays no attention to it, 

 and stays in bed, and takes 

 another nap, after a few days 

 he will not hear it at all. 



It is easy for any 

 man, woman, or child 

 gradually to form this 

 habit. I have done it 

 myself. 



Every winter when 

 our man Crosby goes 

 to the basement and shakes the furnace with all his 

 might for the first time, I waken with a jump and think 

 that the world is coming to an end. Then I remember 

 what is happening and go to sleep again. The second 

 morning I am not so frightened, and I fall asleep at 



FORMING A HABIT 



