Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — DON’T TALK IN YOUR SLEEP. [ARTICLE]

DON’T TALK IN YOUR SLEEP.

Ilrown Did and HU Wife Hoard Something Not Intended for Her Ear a. “And who, pray, 1b Doris?" was (ho question that startled Mr. Brown (who. says the Million, is addicted to that ill-conceived habit of talking in ids sleep), us he woke the other morning and found his bett r half Hitting up in bed, with an interrogation point In one eye and a note of exclamation In tho other. “Doris, Doris—Doris who?” “That’s precisely what, I want to know; you’ve boen repeating that name over and over again during tho night.” “Oh—ah—yes, yes, of course. It’s Charlie .Jones’ new collie dog, Oh, she’s a perfoot beauty! I’d give anything for her. ” “Indeed!” “Jlatlior, she’s tho sort of dog " “You ought to own? Certainly—you appear excessively loud of her. You asked, you will be pleased to hear, this ‘ collie dog ' to put her arms round your neck and kiss you; then you told Mr. Jones' dog that you ‘ loved her with all your heart,' and tliat when you catne to die, if you could only 'lay your head ’ on Jones’ dog’s bosom, you could ‘ breatlio your life out sweetly there.’ Thon you asked Jones’ dog to ‘have another ice cream,’ and if tho watch you had given her kept good tlmo. Under these circumstances, Jethro Brown, I think, perhaps, you had better go to Jones’ collie dog, as I am going home to my mother,”