THE BROKEN ARM.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 431

THE BROKEN ARM.

It is easy to forget how much children have to learn, and how the most obvious facts of life and experiences may be to them mysteries the most profound. So it happens frequently that true stories sound impossible, and of this class is perhaps a thing which a little girl said last summer to her mother. She was only three years old, and she had had no experiences in the matter of broken limbs beyond that afforded by the casualities in her family of dolls. She had the misfortune to fall and break her own arm, and as soon as she discovered what had happened to her she cried out : • Oh, mamma, will it drop off?’ • No, darling,’ the mother answered ; * 1 will hold it so that it will not hurt you till the doctor comes, and he will fix it all right.’ • Well, mamma, the little one said, pieising her lips together and trying to be brave, * do hold on tight, so that the sawdust won’t run out!'