CHAPTER VIII

JIMMY FORGETS SOMETHING No one has ever satisfactorily explained the disconcerting tendency to oversleep the mornings when it is most necessary to wake on time. Pollyanna generally slept with the soundness popularly, if erroneously, supposed to indicate an untroubled conscience, and accordingly, as a rule, about six o’clock she wakened, thoroughly refreshed, and feeling ready for the day. But on the particular morning which Jimmy had selected as the occasion for an early start, Pollyanna was awakened by an emphatic…