Point of View and four more stories

Excerpt: ""My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that''s what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I don''t mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it; but I didn''t, simply because I have been a wonder myself. Will you believe that I have spent the whole voyage on deck, in the most animated...