Peter’s Wife’s Mother
A parson in the country, taking his text from St. Matthew, chap. viii. 14, “And Peter’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever,” preached for three Sundays together on the same subject. Soon after, two country fellows going across the churchyard and hearing the bell toll, one asked the other, who it was for. “Perhaps,” replied he, “it is for Peter’s wife’s mother, for she has been sick of a fever these three weeks.”