Dr. Chalmers's Punctuality.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 4

Dr. Chalmers's Punctuality.

The punctuality which reigned over the domestic regulations of Dr. Chalmers was sometimes not a little inconvenient to his guests. His aunt, while living in the house, appeared one morning too late for breakfast ; and well knowing what awaited her if she did not "take the first word o' flytin'," she thus diverted the expected storm : " Oh, Dr. Chalmers," the exclaimed as she entered the room, "I had such a dream la.st night. I di earned you wore dead." "Indeed, aunt," said the doctor, quite arrested by an announcement m hich bore so directly upon his own futuie his tory. "And I dicamed." she continued, " that the funeial day was named, rind the funeral hour was fixed, and the funeral cards were written, and that the day came, and the folks came, and the hour camo : but what do you think happened ? Why, the clock had scarce done chapping twelve, which was the hour named in the cards, when a loud knocking vas heard within tho c )ffin, and a voice, very peremptory and ill-pleased like, came out of it, saying, ' Twelve's chappit, and yore no liftin' I"' The doctor was too fond of a joke not to enjoy this one ; and in the hearty laugh which followed, the culprit escaped.