SUBMITTED BY:

Necolyn Gayle Uba

SUBMITTED TO:
Mrs. Mary Michelle J. Claro

MY HOME READING REPORT

TITTLE:

A DAYS WAIT

AUTHOR:

ENERST HEMINGWAY

PAGES:

88 TO 90

SUMMARY:

One cold morning Schatz was shivering, his face

was white. His father asked that Are you ok Schatz? Schatz
said Ive got headache. Then Schatz is sitting by the fire he
looks like sick his father put his hand on his forehead he knew
that Schatz had fever. After his father called a doctor later on
the doctor get the temperature of Schatz. His temperature
was One Hundred Two. Then the doctor left three kind of
medicine. Schatz father read his favorite book of the pirates.
Schatz feel he was dying but in the other day Schatz was
feeling better.
SETTING:

At the house of Schatz

CHARACTERS: Schatz, the doctor, and father of Schatz.

PLOT:
He came into the room to shut the windows while
we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering,
his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to
move. Whats the matter, Schatz? father ask Ive got a
headache. Schatz said You better go back to bed. Father

said No. Im all right. Schatz said, Father said You go to

bed. Ill see when Im dressed. But when I came downstairs
he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking like very sick and
miserable boy of nine years. When Schatz father put his hand
on Schatz forehead he knew that he had a fever. You go up
to bed, youre sick. His father said. Im all right. Schatz
said. Schatz Father called a doctor. When the doctor came he
took the Schatz temperature. What is it? Schatz father
asked. The doctor said One Hundred Two. Downstairs the
doctor left three kinds of medicines in different colored of
capsules with instruction for giving them. One to bring down
the fever, another purgative, the third to overcome the acid
condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid
condition, the doctor explains. He seemed to know all about
influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the
fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This
was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you
avoided pneumonia. Back to the room I wrote the boys
temperature down and made a note of the time to give
various capsules. Do you want me to read to you? Schatzs
father offers. All right. If you want to, said the boy. His face
was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He
lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was
going on. I read aloud from Howard Pyles book of pirates, but
I could see he was not following while Schatz father reads.

How do you feel, Schatz? he ask to his son. Just the same,
so far, Schatz replied. Schatz father sat at the foot of the bed
and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give
another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to
sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the
bed, looking very strangely. Why dont you try to go to
sleep? Ill wake you up for the medicine. Schatz father says.
Id rather stay awake. Schatz replied. After a while Schatz
say to his father, You dont have to stay in here with me,
papa, if it bothers you. Schatz father say It doesnt bother
me. I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after
giving him prescribed capsules at eleven oclock I went out for
a while. It was a bright, cold day the ground had been
varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little
walk up the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult
to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped
and slithered and fell twice, hard, once dropping my gun and
having it slide away over the ice. We flushed a covey of quail
under a high clay bank with overhanging brushed and I killed
two as they went out of sight over top of the bank. Some of
covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles
and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of
brush several times before they would flush. Coming out
while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, spring brush,
they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five and

started back pleased to have found a covey closed to the

house and happy there were so many left to find on another
day. At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone
came into the room. You cant come in, he said. You
mustnt get what I have. I went up to him and found him in
exactly the position I have left him, white-faced, but with the
top of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had
stared, at the foot of the bed. I took his temperature what is
it? Something like a hundred, I said. It was one hundred
and two and four tenths. It was a hundred and two, he said.
Who said so? The doctor. Youre temperature is all
right, I said. Its nothing to worry about. I dont worry, he
said, but I can keep from thinking. Dont think, I said. Just
take it easy. Im taking it easy, he said and looks straight
ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about
something. Take this water. Do think it will do any good?
Of course it will. I sat down and opened the pirate book and
commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I
stopped. About how long will it be before I die? You arent
going to die. Whats the matter of you? Oh yes I am. Heard
him say a hundred or two. People dont die with a fever of
hundred and two. Thats a silly way to talk. I know they do.
At school at France the boys told me you cant live with fortyfour degrees. Ive got a hundred and two. He had been
waiting to die all day, ever since nine oclock in the morning.

You poor Schatz, I said. Poor old Schatz. Its like miles and
kilometers. You arent going to die. Thats a different
thermometer, thirty-seven its normal. On this kind its ninetyeight. Are you sure? Absolutely, I said. Its like miles and
kilometers. You know like how many kilometers we make
when we do seventy miles in the car? oh, he said. But his
graze at the foot of the bed relayed slowly. The hold over
himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack
and he cried very easily at little things what where of no
importance.
PROBLEM: Schatz has a fever.
SULOTION: When Schatz father called a doctor and Schatz
take a medicine.
MORAL LESSON: Dont say yes if youre not ok. Tell the truth
what youre feeling.