For a moment after the Junipers had left him, he lay awake looking around the room. It was lit only by a night-light in the shape of a tiny rose-covered cottage. By its light he saw Jeff's maple chair, the kind whose orange paddle arms always looked tasty to him, like glossy hard candy. He saw the ruffled curtains move in the rose-odorous breeze. He listened to the dust-mop dog sigh in his dreams. He found another sampler. This one said, he thought but could not be sure:
The Things that Make us Happy
Make us Wise
He slept."
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