BOUND TO DO HIS BIT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 8

BOUND TO DO HIS BIT

Sir,—l was glad to read your paragraph this morning about the lion.' Charles Hill-Trevor. His joining the French lied . Cross as. a private rather than keep out of tho war is what one who remembers his Kaiwara (not Ki\iwarra, please Sir. Printer) exploit would have expected of him. The lion. Charles was very much of a precisian, and was commonly reported to be bored to tho verge of extinction by the uncongeniality of the surroundings of a.colonial court. Naturally a gentleman of Lis cast of mind would be driven in en himself for ien tela in men t, .and as; naturally,., long 'walks would present themselves to him as a form of the entertainment. On a certain day ho was passing through Kaiwara, doubt wondering for which particular sin he had been driven to this end of the earth, when he heard through an open window the voice of a woman in distress. As ,lho war has so abundantly proved since, college-bred men only pretend not to like fighting. Here was a chance. .-No doubt the woman wanted help. She did, but not .of the kind Hill-Trevor 1 thought. What she wiis agonised over was tho imminent death of her child through, if I'recollect aright, convulsions. Hill-Trevor, look in the case at.a glance. The mother's ignorance was at least as great as her love. Hut also there wits little to be hoped, that a middle-aged bachelor could do. However,' the information, picked up somewhere at some idle moment as it had been, was lying away in a cornel' of his brain. Without hesitation this great gentleman took the child, ordered' the mother' to fetch a bath of hot water- at once and plunged the child, dressed as it was, into the bath on the spot. And . saved its life. I am delighted, (nit not surprised, to read of his latest exploit.— 1 I am, etc.,' ■ . „ ..'."• W. October 24. .