THE BOY’S STRATAGEM

New Zealand Tablet, 29 August 1912, Page 62

THE BOY’S STRATAGEM

. r A Scotch lad had his leg injured at a factory and was treated some time by the doctor without much favorable result. His mother. had great faith in a- local bone-setter, and wanted her son to go to him; but the boy preferring, as he said, the ‘ reg’lar faculty.’ Finally, however, he yielded to his mother’s persuasions and was taken to the town where the famous bone-setter resided The leg was duly examined, and It was found necessary 'to pull it very severely, in order

*to get the bone in/ as the quack expressed it. The patient howled in agony, but at last the bone was * got 4 in/ and he was taken home. In a few days he would* be all right, and could resume work. ‘ Didn’t he do it well?’ said the joyous old lady, as they started homeward. ‘Yes, he did, mother,’ said the lad; "‘ he pulled it well; but I was na sic a fool as to gie him the bad leg ! ’ _