True Sisterly Devotion.
Some weeks ago all the papers wore aflame with stories of the devotion of some gentle, mon who each gave an inch of skin to close up a wound upon a comrade. From far-away Oregon cotnes an instance of devotion manifold greater than that shown by the sir knights, performed by a slight girl of eighteen, Ida Harness, and so quietly done that it has not been heard of in the newspapers. Her sister's hand had been crushed in a mangle. To make it whole again, into the wounds were grafted nine pieces of skin, each about an inch in diameter, cut from our lieroine's arm. The doctor feared the use of my anesthetic, and so in full consciousness she sat, with her arm hanging over the bedside, the blood flowing into a pan beneath, while one by one the successive pieces were being cut— all this without a whimper. We , li«-ve never !,oen tljia record paralleled.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6259, 5 January 1892, Page 2
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160True Sisterly Devotion. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6259, 5 January 1892, Page 2
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