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30 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
sleep is dreamy and unsound. They hear the<br />
clock strike, perhaps, every hour. It was a<br />
wonder that Henry did not; but, after falling<br />
asleep a little before nine o'clock, he neither<br />
waked nor changed his position, as he said, till<br />
, almost four o'clock the next morning.<br />
When he awoke, the birds were just finishing<br />
their first grand concert of music. Robin-red<br />
breast and a very few others continued their<br />
song, as the chorister sometimes continues his<br />
strains<br />
after the choir have paused.<br />
Henry started up, and thought it later than it<br />
really was. The clock at that very instant<br />
struck four. His first sober thought was, "I<br />
am just fourteen years old." He would have<br />
repeated the thought, and given it words, — he<br />
would have made the whole house ring, — but
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