BOY IN LION’S DEN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 4

BOY IN LION’S DEN

liisiv fot: onJPPi.Ei) sisteis. When Intis sta Oareia walked across a ward •to moot Prince Homy m the Koval National Ortliopnedie Hospital. l?olsover-sti eet, .Marlehone. the nurses’ eyes dimmed at the memory ol a little messenger hoy who entered a lien of lions to ensure that his hahy sister should Wf neaKii and strength.'

Esta. now aged ten and just beginning' to walk properly lor the first time was the baby sister. And now that I’rineg Floury anil 'the Loro Mayor of London (Sir Charles Bath In.) and the Sherrill's have visited the hospital to open the new wing she is going to write and tell . her brave brother bow well she van really walk. Esta was born a cripple and when she was three she began to grow worse.

In 1923 her brother Allred, then 12. a uniformed London messenger boy, heard tluu at Sheffield there was a lion-tamer in a circus who wagered fjoO that no one else would dare to go into the den of lions which he entered at every performance.

Alfred went to Sheffield, walked into the lions’ don and was handed a ehef|tie for £SO. He told the story to tt Harley Street surgeon. who, deeply moved, gave his services free, and then sent Esta to the lloyal National Orthopaedic Hospital so thai the treatment he had begun could he continued. Esta has been there ever since. Alfred Oareia would not put any of the £SO in his pocket and let his sister accept entirely free, service, so lie erented a little fund of £SO to he administered by the hospital authorities on her hehall.

“f am very, very proud of him.” said Esta to the Prince and the Lord .\ favor.