i88 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



termed " neighbours " and " gossips," call snoring " driving 

 pigs to market," but I cannot see the aptitude of the illus- 

 tration. 



\Happy Thought. — I like encouraging myself to get into a 

 train of thought like this, as it generally results in the train 

 running off the main line, and, after travelling through the 

 vague country of muddle head, shunting itself into a sleepy 

 siding and there remaining happily unconscious till 

 morning.] 



For instance, there's my Aunt at it again. She has begun 

 exactly at the very moment when I feel that had I been 

 only left to myself I should have been asleep. 



Pigs going to market, indeed ! Not a bit like it. 



Now it seems as though, somehow or other, she were 

 getting a corkscrew out of her throat. Up it's coming, 

 gradually, gradually, the tone becoming more acute each 

 time, and the key of the snore sharper and sharper, by what 

 seems to be increased tension. I almost expect to hear 

 something go pop. Shall I wake her up 1 Shall I knock at 

 the wall ? Would a sudden waking start have an ill effect on 

 her ? Perhaps I'd better not. I'll bear it. I'll fight against 

 it, with my eyes shut. 



Happy Thought. — Since sleep won't come to me, I must 

 go to sleep. 



Incentives. — I think of Shakespeare's lines about sleep. 

 Count a hundred backwards. ]\Iy pillow has become hot 

 and feverish. 



