"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway which appears in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first printed in 1933.
Synopsis
The story focuses on a nine-year old boy named Schatz and his father. When the boy gets the flu, his temperature rises to 102 degrees. He grows very quiet and finally asks when he will die, thinking that a 102 degree temperature is lethal because he heard in France (where Celsius is used) that one cannot live with a temperature over 44 degrees. When the father explains to him the difference in scales, Schatz slowly relaxes the tight hold he had on himself, and the next day, "he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance."
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