CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE.
Nurses in hospitals are rather apt to lay too much stress on the advantages received by the patients and their duty of thankfulness, but still it is the poor soldier who suffers most from always having his causes to be grateful flung in his teeth. Witness the following true story : Chaplain : "So poor Hopkins is dead. I should have liked to speak to him once again and soothe his last moments. Why didn't you call me ?"
Hospital Orderly : " I didn't think you ought to be disturbed for 'Opkins, sir so I just soothed him as best 1 could myself.". Chaplain : " Why, what did jou say to him ?"
Orderly : " ' 'Opkins,' Bays I, * you're mortal had.* " 'I am,' says 'e. " 'Opkins,' says I, ' I don't think you'll get better.' " 'No,' says 'e. *' ' 'Opkins,' says I, ■- you're goin'
fast.' " 'Yes,' says 'e. " * 'Opkins,' says I, •■ I don't think you can 'ope to go to 'eaven.' " 'I don't think I can,' says 'e. '" ' Well, then, "Opkins," says I, * you'll go to the other place.' *' 'I suppose so,' says 'e. " * 'Opkins,' says I, •' you ought to be wery grateful as there'e a place perwided fer you, and that you've got somewhere to go.' And I think 'e 'eard sir, and then 'e died."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 366, 3 June 1911, Page 7
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211CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 366, 3 June 1911, Page 7
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