A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
It is quite a common thing, says a eon temporary, to see boys hewing and slashing with pocket-knives in dangerous proximity to their nether limits, and those who know better should lose no opportunity of warning the the youngster of the great risk he then runs In cutting himself In such a position as to causa almost t instant death. Such' a ease occurred recently near Adelaide, when a fine bright little fellow aha bad that morning got a certificate of honor from the Prince Alfred College, wh'ob passed a high encomium on his abilities, bled to death before be could be removed from the footpath. He had been crossing a vacant section, and was slashing at the tope of the sorub. He drove’the knife through the femoral artery on the inner side of the thigh, and in a few minutes ceased to ex’V
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1410, 18 November 1886, Page 2
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147A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1410, 18 November 1886, Page 2
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