Emphasis Preaching Journal

A doctor liked to do magic tricks for the children on the pediatrics ward. His favorite trick was to turn himself into an apple, and he did it every time he showed up on the ward. Every day, around mid-afternoon, just when the nurses could get a break because the children would be napping, there would come the doctor performing his shabby magic tricks, telling his corny jokes, and for the grand finale -- turning himself into an apple! The nurses hated it, and conspired to put a stop to it, but no amount of hinting would work. One day the head nurse got an idea.