Beware the Dog : Roald Dahl [12 of 32]

• But he did not sleep. He wanted to keep his eyes open because he was frightened that if he shut them again everything would go away.
• He lay looking at the ceiling. The fly was still there. It was very energetic. It would run forward very fast for a few inches,
• then it would stop. Then it would run forward again, stop, run forward, stop, and every now and then it would take off and
• buzz around viciously in small circles. It always landed back in the same place on the ceiling and started running and
• stopping all over again. He watched it for so long that after a while it was no longer a fly, but only a black speck upon a sea of gray,
• and he was still watching it when the nurse opened the door, and stood aside while the doctor came in. He was an Army doctor, a major,
• and he had some last war ribbons on his chest. He was bald and small, but he had a cheerful face and kind eyes.