His thirst insane, the tiger lapped up water from the leaky fountain where the flower women filled their buckets, and then put his nose into the face of a sleeping child who had been left, wrapped in blankets, under the pancake stand.

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Dylan's body was found almost four days later by a walker who noticed what he thought was a child "sleeping in the sand".

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The prize for the earliest picture goes to Benjamin West's "The Golden Age" (1776), a sentimental portrait of a mother and her sleeping child.

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She held the sleeping child at a gathering with reporters Wednesday at the same hospital, Jackson Memorial, where she had transplant surgery in 2007.

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Fyodorov still remembered the surprise he had felt when, as a child, he had cautiously watched sleeping dogs, cats, and chickens.

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Does your child have a normal daily rhythm of sleeping and waking?

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