actor-sleeper

Updated: May 10, 2025

This wooden-shod curiosity is anywhere from seventy to one hundred and fifty years old, gray, knock-kneed, bent in the back, and goes to sleep standing up and stays asleep. He is the exact duplicate of the tramp in the comic opera of "Miss Hook of Holland" except that the actor-sleeper occasionally topples over and has to be braced up.

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