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when I'm listening to them." * * * * * My sleep that night was wretched.

Short of sleep from the previous night, I closed my book and turned my light off early.

But scarcely had I dropped into slumber when I was aroused by the recrudescence of my hives.

All day they had not bothered me; yet the instant I put out the light and slept, the damnable persistent itching set up.