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me; for upon no other supposition can I account for their
special powers of torture.
Besides these, there were many other creatures with
many legs wandering with like uneasiness in search of
their lost homes, their eggs, and maggot-babes ; and as
1 fell into short beginnings of feverish slumbers, every
blade of grass seemed to be a centipede or a wriggling
worm, the dried leaves became crawling beetles, and
every bit of stick or twig assumed the changing form of
some intolerable creeping beast.
I might have borne all this much better had I adopted
the night-dress (that of Paradise) before alluded to
(page 245), which seems to be usually worn when
sleeping thus; for the irritation was all exaggerated by
the vegetable fragments and the industrious animals
being confined between the clothes and the skin. But
there were many difficulties in the way of adopting this
costume : first of all it was doubtful whether I should
ever find my clothes again if once I parted with them;
then there was the uncertainty as to whether any sort of
fence existed between me and the proprietors of the
female voices: the possibility of coming in positive
contact with Juno and Yesta in the course of my blind
struggles with the hay, or of sleeping till daylight, and
then having to hunt for my clothes in their presence,
were fearful subjects of apprehension to a man whose
leading characteristic is extreme modest}’.
Besides all this, I was nGt aware, and am not now,
whether the custom of sleeping in the hay in Adam’s
costume is extended to these communities of sleepers,
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