HIGH TEMPERATURE

Last Christmas I made a visit to a friend's home just as they were ready to sit down to dinner. I was made very welcome and was invited to stay and share in the meal.

The meal had to be well digested because laughs were plentiful. Everyone told a story or two.

One story that was passed onto me was by an Anglican minister who was from Labrador and was visiting St. John's for a few days.

It seems a young fellow of twenty had requested the doctor to come and visit his mother who was quite ill. But the problem was the doctor would have to leave the hospital and travel a distance of seven or eight miles to see this lady. He did not go and when he was talking to the son on the third phone call the doctor asked some questions and it did not appear that it was necessary for him to make the trip. But the boy was insisting and the doctor said, "Look here does she have a temperature?" The reply, "Temperature doctor? 'Er temperature wus so 'igh lass night it warped 'er false teet'."