I took his advice, and selecting this place, which I considered the pleasantest part of my property, I came, and lying down, commenced reading the book, and before finishing a page was in a dead slumber.

Every day since then I have repeated the experiment, and every time with equal success.

I am a single man, without any children; and yesterday I made my will, in which, in the event of my friend's surviving me, I have left him all my fortune, in gratitude for his having procured for me the most invaluable of all blessings--sleep." "Dear me," said I, "how very extraordinary! Do you think that your going to sleep is caused by the meadow or the book ?" "I suppose by both," said my new acquaintance, "acting in co-operation." "It may be so," said I; "the magic influence does certainly not proceed from the meadow alone; for since I have been here, I have not felt the slightest inclination to sleep.

Does the book consist of prose or poetry ?" "It consists of poetry," said the individual.

"Not Byron's ?" said I.