From: "Roy Hemmat" <[log in to unmask]>
> And .. just when we all thought this topic was ready to be "laid to rest"
> .. I did some quicky research and found (oh golly now don't ask me where
> ..) a reference to a need in the past to sleep upright .. so that one
might
> keep an eye on the fire .. (either to ensure it did not go out .. or flame
> up and engulf the 'ol homestead)
> It boggles the mind .. the "stuff" one can dig up online ..

Yes, but just because it's online doesn't mean it's true, as I tell my
students again and again.... this makes no sense to me - if you need to keep
an eye on the fire you need to be awake, not upright. If you are asleep, it
hardly matters what position you are in.

Carol Ely
Museum Consultant, Louisville

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