12/18 Don't come back soon." Then Mrs.Fogg put on her bonnet and went around to her mother's, but she came back in the morning. Mr.Fogg hasn't yet confessed what his principal failing is. He told me that he had a fit of sleeplessness one night lately, and after vainly trying to lose himself in slumber he happened to remember that he once read in an almanac that a man could put himself to sleep by imagining that he saw a lot of sheep jumping over a fence, and by counting them as they jumped. He determined to try the experiment; and closing his eyes, he fancied the sheep jumping and began to count. |