I Couldn't Seem
To Get On The Track Of That Sock, Any Way I Could Fix It.
But I Had
To have it; so I went down on my hands and knees,
with one slipper on and the other in
My hand, and began to
paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success.
I enlarged my circle, and went on pawing and raking.
With every pressure of my knee, how the floor creaked!
and every time I chanced to rake against any article,
it seemed to give out thirty-five or thirty-six times
more noise than it would have done in the daytime.
In those cases I always stopped and held my breath till I
was sure Harris had not awakened - then I crept along again.
I moved on and on, but I could not find the sock;
I could not seem to find anything but furniture.
I could not remember that there was much furniture
in the room when I went to bed, but the place was alive
with it now - especially chairs - chairs everywhere
- had a couple of families moved in, in the mean time? And
I never could seem to GLANCE on one of those chairs,
but always struck it full and square with my head.
My temper rose, by steady and sure degrees, and as I
pawed on and on, I fell to making vicious comments under
my breath.
Finally, with a venomous access of irritation, I said I
would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight
for the door - as I supposed - and suddenly confronted my
dim spectral image in the unbroken mirror.
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