A Long Illness
A CLERGYMAN in the country taking his text from the fourteenth verse of
the third chapter of St. Matthew: And Peter's wife's mother lay sick of
a fever, preached three Sundays on the same subject. Soon after, two
country fellows going across a churchyard, and hearing the bell toll,
one asked the other who it was for? I can't exactly tell, replied he;
but it may be for Peter's wife's mother, for she has been sick of a
fever these three weeks.