HARD TO ANSWER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9369, 11 February 1909, Page 2

HARD TO ANSWER.

Teachers at the Summer School invited to seek advice from the r 'horities about problems which s ! y may encounter in the course of t ieir daily work, says a writer in an Tadtralian paper. At one of these -rierience evenings a lady somewhat iffidently asked, “How would you a man who has a fit out of a • '•ring-cart? ’ The lecturer imagined ; rr a moment that he was being pertained with a popular puzzle, but the young lady was quite in ra-uest, so, like a wise man, he v brow the onus hack upon the' quesioner with the query, “How would V in do it?” “Well,” said the young b./lv, with an affectation at least of diffidence, “I was going home from • iool one evening, and I met a ■ art on the road with a man in it ho had a fit, and I really didn’t ;;uow what to do, I was so frightMied.” “What did yon do?” said !lif! lecturer. “I stopped the horse, Mid then I thought the best thing to loosen every buckle that 1 aid see. While I was doing it the shafts of the cart shot up suddenly i the air, and the man and the fit, and a lot of sheepskins were

thrown out on to the road. The man and the sheepskins were all mixed up together, and I had to drag him out by the leg. Now, was that the right way to do it?” The lecturer was not an authority upon first aid, so he soothed the student’s doubts with the encouraging remark, “It was a Splendid idea— in fact, it was an inspiration. I don’t know any better plan, provided always there are lots of sheepskins in the cart.”