PLUCKY BOY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue I, 5 January 1895, Page 22

PLUCKY BOY.

Jimmy Boivin, a ten-year-old lad, was leading a horse to pnt into a hayrake when the animal became unmanageable, knocked him down, and broke his leg in two places, between

the hip and the knee. The accident happened out on the plains many miles from home.

Notwithstanding the agony he must have endured, the boy crawled a considerable distance to where he hoped to find some of the haymakers; but they bad gone further

He lay down exhausted, hoping for some one to come. How many hours he lay there is not known. Night was at length coming on, and he feared he should die if left much longer without help.

The horse, meanwhile, was feeding not far off. Jimmy’s untasted luncheon was still in his pocket. He called the horse, gave him the biscuit, and so caught him. The little sufferer then led the animal to a rock a few yards distant, dragging himself slowly and painfully along, as before. He crept upon the rock, and from there managed to mount the horse.

Once on the horse’s back, be rode two miles to the nearest house or tent, where he found the hay-makers, who made him as comfortable as they could and then took him home to bis parents. An effort to set the broken limb, made by a neighbour, proved unsuccessful, and after nine days of misery the little fellow was taken to the hospital at Winnipeg, where the writer of this account saw him and heard his story. * He’s a brave little man,’ said the surgeon ; * he never complains, and we shall give him a pretty good leg again, I think.’