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20 HISTORY OF A SLEEP WALKER.
from the chair on which he had been sitting, complained
that he was very cold, shivered, stamped with his feet
upon the floor, and gave other marks of the inconve-
nience which he felt.
He then went down into the kitchen to prepare the
supper, saying he would trick the tutor, and went into
the anti-chamber to tell the valet the same thing. He
returned to the kitchen, took his supper, and while he
was eating, several times muttered some words relative to
the trick he intended to play. When he had done, he
returned to the anti-chamber, and endeavoured to per-
suade the valet to go with him. When he imagined
that he had gained his point, he went to the preceptor,
and politely requested him to perform his promise. The
latter gave him a small piece of money. He thanked
him, went away, called the valet, and taking him by
the arm, led him to the public-house. Here, while they
were drinking their wine, he related very circumstantially
how he had duped the tutor, laughed heartily, and
drank several times to the tutor’s health. This diversion
being over, he paid for his companion, and returned
home with him.
Though M. Pigatti had observed this sleep-walker five
successive nights, he likewise watched him on several
other occasions. He remarked that each time he per-
formed some new action, and was convinced that sight,
hearing, taste, and smell, were senses whose functions
were suspended in him at such times. Not only diffe-
rent kinds of food were alike to him, but the loudest noise,
or a light brought so near his eyes, as to scorch his eye-
brows, or the tickling of a feather in his nostrils pro-
duced no effect upon him. His touch, on the contrary,
was sometimes extremely delicate, but at others it was
equally gross.
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from the chair on which he had been sitting, complained
that he was very cold, shivered, stamped with his feet
upon the floor, and gave other marks of the inconve-
nience which he felt.
He then went down into the kitchen to prepare the
supper, saying he would trick the tutor, and went into
the anti-chamber to tell the valet the same thing. He
returned to the kitchen, took his supper, and while he
was eating, several times muttered some words relative to
the trick he intended to play. When he had done, he
returned to the anti-chamber, and endeavoured to per-
suade the valet to go with him. When he imagined
that he had gained his point, he went to the preceptor,
and politely requested him to perform his promise. The
latter gave him a small piece of money. He thanked
him, went away, called the valet, and taking him by
the arm, led him to the public-house. Here, while they
were drinking their wine, he related very circumstantially
how he had duped the tutor, laughed heartily, and
drank several times to the tutor’s health. This diversion
being over, he paid for his companion, and returned
home with him.
Though M. Pigatti had observed this sleep-walker five
successive nights, he likewise watched him on several
other occasions. He remarked that each time he per-
formed some new action, and was convinced that sight,
hearing, taste, and smell, were senses whose functions
were suspended in him at such times. Not only diffe-
rent kinds of food were alike to him, but the loudest noise,
or a light brought so near his eyes, as to scorch his eye-
brows, or the tickling of a feather in his nostrils pro-
duced no effect upon him. His touch, on the contrary,
was sometimes extremely delicate, but at others it was
equally gross.
MIRA-