Excerpt from Every Day Essays I wonder why children wake so early in the morning? It isn't as if they were ready to go to bed early; on the contrary, one never finds the moment when they are willing to give up the joys of the waking world. These seem to have to be wrested from them by force, either by Mother Nature or by the less stern human mother. I have seen Jamie, for example, so drowsy that he would nod off be tween mouthfuls at the table, yet when you asked him if he didn't want to go to sleep, he would resent the ...
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Excerpt from Every Day Essays I wonder why children wake so early in the morning? It isn't as if they were ready to go to bed early; on the contrary, one never finds the moment when they are willing to give up the joys of the waking world. These seem to have to be wrested from them by force, either by Mother Nature or by the less stern human mother. I have seen Jamie, for example, so drowsy that he would nod off be tween mouthfuls at the table, yet when you asked him if he didn't want to go to sleep, he would resent the question as utterly unwar rantable. And in the morning his blue eyes fly open as if the first touch of daylight were some magic talisman calling him back instant ly from the land of dreams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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