Loud Snoring
Sir Archibald Geikie, in his recently published “Scottish Reminiscences,” says that when he came to write down the many good stories and personal anecdotes which he had received by word of mouth he was surprised to find there was hardly a single one of them that had not already appeared in print. For example, the Scottish story about the man who snored so loud in church that “he waukened us a’,” he discovered in an epigram of the Restoration, about a sermon by South:
The doctor stopped, began to call:
“Pray wake the Earl of Lauderdale!
My lord, why, ’tis a monstrous thing,
You snore so loud—you’ll wake the King.”