(LEAVES FROM A HOLIDAY DIARY)
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An outrage has occurred in the hotel. Late on Monday night ten innocent
visitors discovered themselves the possessors of apple-pie beds. The
beds were not of the offensive hair-brush variety, but they were very
cleverly constructed, the under-sheet being pulled up in the good old
way and turned over at the top as if it were the top-sheet.
I had one myself. The lights go out at eleven and I got into bed in
the dark. When one is very old and has not been to school for a long
time or had an apple-pie bed for longer still, there is something very
uncanny in the sensation, especially if it is dark. I did not like it
at all. My young brother-in-law, Denys, laughed immoderately in the
other bed at my flounderings and imprecations. He did not have one. I
suspect him....