HER FIRST CASE.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 46

HER FIRST CASE.

For nine weary months she had religiously attended the ambulance class. And to-day there was something to try her skill upon. A man had fallen down in the road and broken his leg. Joy of joys! Scattering in all directions the crowd that surrounded the sufferer, she flopped on her knees at his side. She snatched a walking-stick from a man standing near, and broke it into three pieces for a splint. She dragged a mackintosh from a woman's shoulders and cut it into strips for a bandage. When the poor chap on the pavement had been splinted and bandaged as much as she could do ft, a taxi was summoned and she took him to the hospital. "This is beautifully done," said the doctor, as he unwound the mackintosh. "Who did it?" Blushingly she confessed to it. "Splendidly done," said the doctor. "ButJ you have made one little mistake. You've bandaged the wrong leg.