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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 8

g A teacher at ono of the Invercargill 1 schools was confronted with a gravo j emergency the other day, and fortunately ho was equal to tho occasion. His , attention was drawn to a boy who had J been brought into the school from the s playground by one of his companions. 1 The boy was obviously in great distress, _ as his eyes were bulging, his face was ; 3 purple-coloured, and ho could only gasp < . instead of speak. The teacher found 1 that tho boy had been sucking a lump i . of liquorice, and that it haj lodged ill f . his throat. The boy could neither eject t . nor swallow it, and was slowly choking, r | 'flie teacher endeavoured to pull out the s , obstruction, but found that ho could not I shift it. Tho boy's condition justified desperate measures, so tho teacher jammed his hand into the boy's mouth, and I pushed the liquorice down tho throat a ' with his longest finger. Fortunately ft ! the desperate resort ivas successful, and after a time the hoy recovered coniplotc- h lv. The teacher had tho skin knocked off his' knuckles, where they had come r into violent contact with 'the boy's teeth when the fmnl downward push was made. « "Ho who fears to venture as his heart o urges and his reason permits is a coward; he who ventures further than ho intend- Y ad to go is a ekre."—Heino.