CHAPTER XIII 



HABITS OF SLEEPING 



Next door to where I am sitting and writing there is 

 a little girl seven years old. She cannot go to sleep 

 unless her mother sits in the room with her and unless 

 the gas is burning. If her mother is not there, she lies 

 awake and screams. 



Just across the road in another house is a boy five 

 years old. Every evening when bedtime comes his 

 mother says, " Now for bed." Generally he looks un- 

 happy because he likes to play ; but he trots along. 

 His mother puts him in bed, tucks him in, says good 

 night, turns out the gas, and goes away, and in five 

 minutes he is fast asleep. He never lies awake to 

 scream for his mother, and he cannot sleep if there is 

 a light in the room. 



Some mothers hold their babies, and rock and sing 

 them to sleep. They do this so regularly that after a 

 while it turns out that such babies cannot sleep unless 

 the mother does hold and rock and sing to them. Other 

 mothers put the baby into a comfortable bed, give him 

 a little pat, smile at him, and go away ; and these babies 

 fall asleep just as soon as the others. It almost seems 



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