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 BRINGING HOME THi; STRAYED LAMB : TYROL 



The hardships of his daily life have steeled his fibre, and his courage, as well as his 

 fearlessness of pain, is extraordinarj^, as the following instance may go to prove. Not long 

 ago a young peasant of the Zillerthal, by occupation a wood-cutter, had his leg crushed to 

 pulp by a falling tree. His single companion rushed down the mountain-side to fetch the 

 distant doctor. When the latter arrived, after many hours, he found that the injured man 

 had cut off the crushed part by severing the ligaments with his pocket-knife; and, tying his 

 braces tightly round to stop the hemorrhage, had actually hobbled some distance down the 

 path to meet him, though by that time night had fallen. The doctor saw_ that it would be 

 necessary to amputate what remained of the stump higher up, and he did it there and then, 

 the man lying on the ground propped against a tree, and holding during the operation the 

 lantern, the other man having gone off to fetch some men with a litter. — W. A. BailuE- 

 Crohman. 



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