You will be surprised, dear, to learn that the horse slept straight ahead for four weeks.
Never woke up once.

I was frightened about it, but Patrick told me that it was a sign of a good horse.

He said that Dexter often slept six months on a stretch, and that once they took Goldsmith Maid to a race while she was sound asleep and she trotted a mile in 2:15, I think he said, without getting awake." "Patrick said that, did he ?" "Yes; that was at the end of the second week.

But as the horse didn't rouse up, Patrick said it couldn't be the paregoric that kept him asleep so long; and he came to me and asked me not to mention it, but he had suspicions that Mr.Fogg had mesmerized him." "I never heard of a horse being mesmerized, dearest." "Neither did I, but Patrick said it was a common thing with the better class of horses.

And when he kept on sleeping, dear, I got frightened, and Patrick consulted the horse-doctor, who came over with a galvanic battery, which he said would wake the horse.