For change
and movement during the ensuing six hours than for sleep; but I felt
that to-night it would take a dozen half-baked firebricks to keep me
awake five seconds after I had got my head on the pillow - or what
they call a pillow in Germany; and so, without hesitation, I made a
very satisfactory meal.
After supper our host escorted us to our bedroom, an airy apartment
adorned with various highly-coloured wood-carvings of a pious but
somewhat ghastly character, calculated, I should say, to exercise a
disturbing influence upon the night's rest of a nervous or sensitive
person.
"Mind that we are called at proper time in the morning," said B. to
the man. "We don't want to wake up at four o'clock in the afternoon
and find that we have missed the play, after coming all this way to
see it."
"Oh! that will be all right," answered the old fellow. "You won't
get much chance of oversleeping yourself. We shall all be up and
about, and the whole village stirring, before five; and besides, the
band will be playing at six just beneath the window here, and the
cannon on the Kofel goes off at - "
"Look here," I interrupted, "that won't do for me, you know.
