"How do you do it ?" "Well, I've got one of those electric alarm clocks, and I put it just as far away from my bed as possible." "Why is that ?" "So I won't get hold of it and smash thunder out of the thing when it gets to going.

You know it won't stop its racket till somebody stops it or it is run down, and it takes an hour for it to run down after it starts in to ring you up." "By Jawve!" drawled Paulding; "I hawdly think I'd like to have one of the blooming things in my room." "I don't like to have one in my room, but it is absolutely necessary that I do.

Hartwick, my roommate, admires it!" The listeners laughed.
"I should think he might," said Puss Parker.

"He's got a temper with an edge like a cold-chisel." "Oh, yes, he admires it! I've got so I believe I should sleep right through the racket, but he kicks me out of bed and howls for me to smother the thing.

So you see I am bound to get up at the proper time.
Once I am out of bed, I stay up.