Snoring like a fish-horn

[NH Civil War Gal]

This actually happened to Wilbur Hinman who wrote the fictional account of "Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard."

"In the company to which the writer belonged there was a little fellow of Teutonic birth, who had a snore that was like the sound of a fish-horn. When he was asleep it was never silent. He would begin to tune up his gazoo as soon as he closed his eyes, and by the time he was fairly asleep it would be at full blast. Enough imprecations to sink a ship were nightly heaped upon that unfortunate youth. Sometimes the boys made it so warm for him that he would get up in high dudgeon, seize his blanket, and go off back of the camp and crawl into a wagon. Then when he got to snoring again it would set all the mules to braying. Once when the company was sent, at night, to occupy a position near the enemy, and silence was a necessity, this man was actually left behind as a prudential measure. It was feared he would go to sleep and his snoring would convey intelligence to the enemy. But he snored his way through the war to the very end. In all the hard fighting only one bullet ever touched him and that did not in the slightest degree impair his snoring machinery. Of course he never had a "pard." A chap tried it the first night in camp, but half an hour after they lay down he got up in a rage and left the Dutchman's "bed and board" forever!"

I once stayed in a campground and believe it or not, there was a person just like that! This person snored and it went through the ENTIRE campground!

 

[Mrs. V]

My husband snores like that. I live in an old house..built 1923, so plaster lathe walls, solid wood doors, and I an hear him snore all the way downstairs. When we still occupied the same mattress, his snores would vibrate through the mattress and shake the bed. And you didn't even need a quarter!

 

[Gettmore]

Please do not ask my wife. SHE LIES....

 

[Lampasas Bill]

That kind of snoring can be a sign of the sleep disorder "sleep apnea." Sufferers occasionally stop breathing and then start up again violently when they have to take a breath. It can be dangerous when that happens, but it can be compensated for. I speak as a fellow sufferer.