I reckon I'll ask father about that.

And I haven't delayed the messages, either; for I've been waiting for Jim.

I wonder where that boy can be!" And again Harry went out of doors to listen.
Had he known that Jim was at that moment fast asleep in his bed at home, Harry need not have gone to the door so often.
At last our operator began to be very sleepy, and having made up his mind that if Jim arrived he would certainly wake him up, he aroused Aunt Judy, who was now too sleepy to scold, and having succeeded in getting her to lend him a blanket (it was her very best blanket, which she kept for high days and holidays, and if she had been thoroughly awake she would not have lent it for the purpose), and having spread it on the floor, he lay down on it and was soon asleep.
Aunt Judy blew out one of the candles and set the other on the hearth.
Then she stumbled drowsily into the next room and shut the door after her.

In a few minutes every living creature in and about the place was fast asleep, excepting some tree-frogs and katydids outside, who seemed to have made up their minds to stay up all night..