At least one Riverhead (L. I.) little boy, Everett Brown, aged
about twelve years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Brown, remembers
to advantage some of the physiology he has studied at school.
Saturday afternoon he and Frank Terry, about his own age, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Terry, went into the woods to build a hut
or something of that kind, and the ax that the Terry lad was
wielding cut a bad gash in one of his feet.
It bled profusely and the Brown lad was afraid his chum would
bleed to death, so he quickly got the shoe off of the foot and
bound his handkerchief tightly, closing the wound and largely
stopping the flow of blood until the wounded boy was gotten
home, which was some distance away.
“I learned that in my physiology,” said the Brown boy when Mrs.
Terry asked him how he thought of it.--Brooklyn _Eagle_.
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