HOW GAMBETTA LOST AN EYE.
The tale that Gambetta, when a child, voluntarily put out his right eye in order to be removed from a seminary which he abhored, is pronounced an absurd fiction. The real facts are that one (lay when only eight years old, while looking at a cutler boring holes in the handle of a knife, with a drill fastened to an old broken foil by a piece of catgut, this rude machine gave way by reason of too great tension, and the broken foil struck the right eye of ihe child with great force, perforating the cornea. Tin's terrible accident causing him to be one different from his kind, he was petted, pampered and spoiled by his parents, his every whim and fancy indulged, and every caprice of his ardent and violent character allowed free play.—Xew York Tribune.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 7
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