How to Soothe a Dying Man.
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 story:—Chaplain : " So poor Hopkins is dead. I should have liked to
speak to him once again and soothe hi 3 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 sooth'd him as best I could myself."— Chaplain: " Why, what did you say to him?"— Orderly : " "Opkins,' sez I, 'you're mortal bad.'—'l am,' sez 'e.—"Opkins, 1 sez I, 'I don't think you'll get better.'— ' No,' sez 'e.—' 'Opkins,' sez I, ' you're going fast.' —'Yes,' sez 'e.—"Opkins,' sez T, ' 1 don't think you can hope to go to 'eaven.'—' I don't think I can,' sez 'e.— —' Well, then, 'Opkins,' sez I, ' you'll go to 'ell.' —' I suppose so,' sez 'e.—' 'Opkins,' sez I, ' you ought to be werry grateful as there's a place perwided for you, and that you've got somewhere to go.' And I think 'c 'eard, sir, and then he died."—'Hospital,'
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Evening Star, Issue 7752, 25 October 1888, Page 4
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