--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Bailey, Carolyn J. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 4 published: 1909-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Bailey, Carolyn J., "Bedtime," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 4 (February 1909): 265.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1204unse start_page: 265 end_page: 265 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse publication_year: 1909 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Bedtime BEDTIME. BY CAROLYN J. BAILEY. If you close your two eyes and lie ever so quiet, Counting them soft and low, One little, two little, three little sheep — Down through the pasture they go. Four little, five little, six and then seven — Trotting so gray and small, One little, two little, six, and then seven — Jumping across the wall; Some of them faster, but most of them slower, Eight little, nine little, ten — Ten little sheep, and you have to stop counting — I think that you go to sleep then . Youth's Companion.